Using Your Client's Home as a Witness in Trial - On Demand CLE

Jurors are often frustrated, stressed, and easily alienated from your client. So how do you inspire them to act? In this 60-minute CLE, trial lawyer Andy Young–lead counsel for the largest truck crash trial verdict in the state of Ohio ($42.4 million)–demonstrates how to use exhibits and testimony to create a compelling trial story that will help jurors relate to your client in powerful ways. Young argues that centering your trial story around your client’s home and family gives an intimate window into how your client has been significantly impacted by the harms they have suffered.Young will show how, just as a picture “is worth a thousand words,” images of your client’s home and life reveal more about them than could ever be described during direct examination. Using the client’s home, not just as an exhibit but as a stage to frame and provide context for who your client is, creates anchor points that jurors can identify with and provides a powerful tool for connecting people of diffe