Not long from now you will again find yourself sitting at your desk with a mountain of discovery you fought hard to get. You will be preparing your case for trial. Likely the most important case in your client’s life. All of your work. The risk you took. The piece of your life that you left behind for your client and her case. It all comes down to this.

In your opening you’ll introduce the main witnesses, the time period, place, and scope of the plot. For trial lawyers, the buildup includes unfolding subplots, introducing evidence to prove your case and exploiting witnesses to show the jurors what’s at stake. The relationships between the plaintiffs and other witnesses create a narrative arc, or plot, for your trial as much as it does for a work of fiction.

You must know the handful of narrow, dispositive medical issues in your case better than their expert. Where do you start?

An expert, like a warrior with no way to flee, may rather make a last stand causing casualties to the enemy, your case. Fleeing soldiers are more easily killed than those with their backs to the wall, forced to fight to the death.  So have them flee.  Flee in the way most advantageous to your case and your client.  She flees as your expert.

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