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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Jun. 25, 2008

Simply, Simplify: A Mantra for Transcendentalists and Litigators Alike

Sometimes you need to try more than one approach to simplifying material you present to a jury, writes G. Chritopher Ritter. - Forum Column

FORUM COLUMN

By G. Christopher Ritter
This article appears on Page 4

      Most trial lawyers know that the art of presenting a case lies in simplifying it enough to make it powerful, palatable and persuasive. And certainly lawyers aren't the only ones who understand this: Writers, philosophers, and marketing types have advised us to "keep it simple" for millennia. As Henry Thoreau famously noted, "Our life is fritter...

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