In an adversarial legal system the quality of advocacy directly affects the outcome, and hence justice. This blog is for everyone -however they serve our legal system - who is committed to improving the teaching of advocacy skills and ethics so that parties and the community are well served by persuasive and ethical advocates.
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Lest We Forget . . . The Importance of Good Storytelling
While hyperlinking my way through cyberspace today, I stumbled on a great article in Psychology Today, The Inside Story, about the central importance of storytelling to the human condition. I intend to share it with my students, because it expresses the why of good storytelling much better than I've been able to.
In my experience, many advocacy students experience difficulty finding the story at the heart of the case. This affects their case analysis, presentation of witnesses and ability to persuade a jury. So I'm always on the lookout for ways to help teach them this valuable skill.
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