Using Mindfulness to Bring Jurors to the Case’s Core Truths

In this interview, Michael Leizerman and Jay Rinsen Weik, co-authors of The Zen Lawyer: Winning with Mindfulness, discuss how mindfulness can benefit your legal practice. A Zen practice is the ability to be able to pay attention to what’s going on within yourself. Remaining present and having an awareness of your feelings is essential to every trial victory. Rinsen shares tactics for beginning a Zen practice and walks listeners through an introductory meditative exercise to help you stay conscious. Being aware of what you’re aware of and harnessing the ability to guide your mind is the goal. Leizerman outlines how their book is structured according to the core truths and how, as a plaintiffs’ attorney, your job is to make the jury understand each core truth as it relates to your argument. Leizerman theorizes that there are only two reasons attorneys do not get larger verdicts: they aren’t asking for the desired amount or they don’t believe in what they are asking for. To convey authent