How has TLC changed the way you prepare for a cross examination?
The TLC method doesn't discount the amount of preparation required for a case. If I am representing a client with a medical negligence case, I still have to understand the medicine, read the literature and explore with my experts how best to communicate the medical principles. I still have to prepare, prepare, prepare. What it has helped me do is use the information mined throughout discovery and trial preparation in an effective way. Often at trial we know we are not necessarily going to get the exact answers we want to the questions put to a defense witness, but because of TLC I now know that no matter the witness's answers, I can advance the story of my case, which was a foreign concept to me until the Trial Lawyers College. Part of our preparation for cross should include asking ourselves, "What part of my client's story needs to be told in this cross examination"? Even if I don't get the pristine answer that I want from a witness, I'm not afraid of asking the questions because doing a cross examination with the TLC approach ALWAYS advances my client's story. TLC's cross exam method is a new way, a novel way, an effective way, to continue to tell and advance your client's story in a critical part of trial and that's what we'll teach in San Diego in January 2016.