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Trial in Action: The Persuasive Power of Psychodrama

Book Review: Trial in Action: The Persuasive Power of Psychodrama is not a book that be­longs on your bookshelf where it can be ignored. It is not meant to collect dust while the trial lawyer tries his or her cases in the “ordinary” way. It is a book that should be read immediately and often be­ cause the better you know and under­ stand the principles, the more effective you will be as you try your next case. As an added bonus, the more you will enjoy trying cases.
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Winning the Unwinnable Case

Winning the Unwinnable Case

Join leading trial consultant David Ball and attorney Gary C. Johnson in a discussion of how to win an "unwinnable" case. This video interview touches on ideas discovered in the early formation of the Reptile theory—specifically, the idea of community safety.

In 2002, a Kentucky jury ordered the defendant gas company to pay more than $270 million to the plaintiff, a man whose water well exploded, resulting in minor burn injuries with no lasting damages. A series of focus groups conducted over the months before trial showed just how difficult the case would be. Instead of backing away from the challenge, Gary Johnson used an approach he calls "Judo Law" to leverage the facts, and to turn the most difficult issues to his advantage. The approach turned this unwinnable case—in a county that everyone said would not give a decent verdict—into what is believed to be the largest verdict ever given to an individual for a company's environmental negligence.
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David Ball on Focus Groups

David Ball on Focus Groups

Focus groups can help you obtain better outcomes in your cases by understanding the pitfalls in your facts or themes.  In this DVD, trial consultant David Ball, author of David Ball on Damages and Reptile: The 2009 Manual of the Plaintiffs Revolution explains step-by-step how to set up, conduct, and analyze your own high quality focus group.
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David Ball Focus Groups Video with Forms

David Ball Focus Groups Video with Forms

Trial Guides is proud to announce David Ball’s new Focus Groups DVD set.

David Ball and his partners Debra Miller and Artemis Malekpour explain and show you, step-by-step, how to set up, conduct, and analyze your own high quality focus jury research. Uniquely, they even provide clear instructions for how you can apply the focus jurors’ responses to your case. This will keep you from misinterpreting the results, and will help you maximize the value of the research even beyond what many jury consultants normally provide.

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David Ball Focus Groups

David Ball to release new Focus Groups video through Trial Guides

David Ball, Ph.D., the nation’s leading trial consultant, and author of David Ball on Damages, is nearing completion of a video for lawyers on how to do their own focus groups. The video, called Focus Groups: How to do Your Own Jury Research, will provide trial lawyers with up to date information on how to effectively use focus groups to refine your case and case themes.
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David Ball's How to Do Your Own Focus Groups Comes to Trial Guides

David Ball's How to Do Your Own Focus Groups Comes to Trial Guides

Trial Guides is happy to announce a new distribution deal with NITA allowing us to bring several books by leading trial consultants David Ball and Eric Oliver to Trial Guides customers.

How to Do Your Own Focus Groups is easy-to-follow book, written by leading jury consultant and best-selling trial advocacy author David Ball.  The book shows you how to organize and direct your own focus groups from deciding what kind of focus group best fits your case, to selecting the focus-jurors, to analyzing your conclusions. The book is designed so that attorneys can easily start conducting their own focus groups and it also contains information about hiring trial consultants to run them for you.

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