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Countering Reptile-Themed Opening Statements: Defense Strategies for Refocusing Juror Attention

Shaping Juror Perceptions, Influencing Decision-Making, and Enhancing Understanding

A live 90-minute CLE video webinar with interactive Q&A

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Tuesday, February 25, 2025 (in 12 days)

1:00pm-2:30pm EST, 10:00am-11:30am PST

Early Registration Discount Deadline, Friday, February 14, 2025

or call 1-800-926-7926

This CLE webinar will offer guidance to defense attorneys planning and creating their own opening statements when anticipating and responding to reptile-themed plaintiff's opening statements. Attendees will learn the art and science of crafting, structuring, and delivering compelling opening statements to impact today’s jury and the juror brain.

Description

Attendees will be shown common mistakes made in openings and how to avoid these errors, plus the psychology behind why certain openings work and others fall flat. Attendees who complete this course will understand what resonates with a jury and what elements are required for a compelling opening statement.

Listen as Dr. Bill Kanasky, Jr. shares the art and science of crafting, structuring, and delivering compelling opening statements.

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Outline

  1. Biggest miscues and mistakes made in opening statements
  2. Persuading the jury
  3. Primacy and recency effects
  4. Damages
  5. Storytelling
  6. Plaintiff Reptile Theory
  7. Examples of effective and ineffective openings

Benefits

Dr. Kanasky, Jr. will discuss these and other key issues:

  • Understanding common mistakes made by the defense in opening statements
  • Understanding and applying the psychology concepts of primacy, recency, cognitive lens, and availability bias
  • Understanding and leveraging the power of storytelling in opening statements and structuring information and delivery to resonate with today’s jurors
  • Understanding, with specific examples, the difference between effective and ineffective opening statements and applying the learned concepts at trial

Faculty

Kanasky, Bill
Dr. Bill Kanasky, Jr., Ph.D.

Senior Vice President
Courtroom Sciences

Dr. Kanasky, Jr., Ph.D. is Senior Vice President of Litigation Psychology for Courtroom Sciences, Inc. and a nationally...  |  Read More

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