Focus (Forum & Focus)
Dec. 8, 2007
Courtroom Analogies Are to Lawyers as Weapons Are to Soldiers
Forum Column - By G. Christopher Ritter - Attorneys looking to make the maximum rhetorical impact on juries should remember that the single most important question that any lawyer can answer is "Compared to what?"
By G. Christopher Ritter
Imagine this scenario: You're defending a major chemical company against charges that smoke from one of its incinerators poisoned residents in several adjacent communities. One of your challenges is to explain the concept of a "no-effect level," as well as describe how regulators use that level to calculate safety standards for individual chemicals. It's a complex topic that draws on arith...
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