{"id":1540,"date":"2007-03-18T11:29:40","date_gmt":"2007-03-18T15:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/we_continue_here_with_our\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T16:15:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T21:15:04","slug":"we-continue-here-with-our","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/we-continue-here-with-our\/","title":{"rendered":"Closing Arguments: Trial Techniques for Serious Injury Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We continue here with our previous discussion about how experienced trial counsel prepares and delivers closing arguments before juries in serious injury cases. See prior entries of 3\/13 and 3\/15\/07. We continue as follows:<\/p>\n<p>You must close your summation with confidence and with an ending appropriate to the tone of the case that will have the desired impact.  Once you have concluded, sit down with an air of confidence that you have clearly won your case.<\/p>\n<p>In every winning summation there is both the logical and rational aspect of the presentation. Where the facts are placed in perspective by counsel, the jury is furnished with ammunition to advocate your side of the case in the jury room.  But there is also the emotional side.  Counsel must convince the juries in the justness of his client\u2019s cause and want them to believe that when they return a verdict in favor of the plaintiff that they will be promoting the ends of justice.  Through a sincere, honest and forthright approach to the case, counsel can best appeal to the jury\u2019s emotional sense of right and wrong at the conclusion of his or her remarks.  Obviously, a tone has to be set throughout the closing argument which is consistent with the facts of the case.  When counsel concludes his remarks, however, it is necessary that the jury viscerally feel that the plaintiff is entitled to a verdict and that it would be right to return a verdict in favor of the plaintiff.  Thus, the structure of a closing argument, while inherently logical, must allow for an appropriate expression of emotion consistent with the facts in dispute.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/we-continue-here-with-our\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Closing Arguments: Trial Techniques for Serious Injury Cases\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We continue here with our previous discussion about how experienced trial counsel prepares and delivers closing arguments before juries in serious injury cases. See prior entries of 3\/13 and 3\/15\/07. 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