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Trial Guides is proud to announce a new trucking seminar November 2-3, 2018 in Scottsdale Arizona.

This live Continuing Legal Education event features three of the leading trucking lawyers in the United States; Michael Leizerman, Joe Fried and Morgan Adams.

Trial Guides is pleased to announce a Zen Lawyer & Advocacy CLE Workshop. In this event, Michael Leizerman, Jay Rinsen Weik, and Joshua Karton.  

The three will teach concepts from Leizerman and Weik's book Zen Lawyer: Winning with Mindfulness.  The three will then work with attendees to put the concepts into practice.  

Michael Leizerman on the “Three Cores”

Michael Leizerman: There are two questions that predict whether someone will do well at trial. And the first is I ask myself, “Am I present at trial? Am I aware what’s going on? Am I mindful?” And the second question is “am I emotionally connected?” I think when it comes to trial there are two reasons why lawyers don’t get bigger verdicts. The first is they don’t ask for enough money and the second is when they do ask for money, they don’t believe it. So, in this book, it goes through the three cores that are important for everybody to develop. The first is the conscious quarter that we find in the gut. That’s where we’re mindful of what we do, mindful of others...