“I've always had a ‘presenter mode’… I’m ‘presenting’ to a jury,” says David Christensen. Then, he and his team at Christensen Law attended a TLU bootcamp about forming relationships instead.

They put the strategies – eye contact, slower speech, and other “micro-communication” techniques –  to work at a recent trial.  “It was palpable. I could feel the difference,” he tells host Dan Ambrose, founder of TLU. 

Next month, it will be David’s turn to teach. At TLU Vegas, he’ll break down an unusual case in which he sued a gas station for not calling 9-1-1 fast enough when a mentally ill man was killed at the site by a homeless man. In this episode, David and Dan put their teaching skills to work as they role-play the cross-examination of a doctor as a paid expert witness. Dan guides the lesson into techniques like asking leading questions, “looping” – establishing a fact and repeating that fact in the next question – and refocusing: “Doctor, here’s my question…”

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Episode Snapshot

• “Everybody takes Chinese studies before coming to law school”: David’s unique path
• How a TLU bootcamp changed the way David connects with a jury
• Background of the case David is teaching at TLU Vegas
• What David is most proud of – not one case, but the firm he built
• The wrongful death case that David is taking to trial in October: a woman killed when a truck driver on methamphetamine struck her car head-on.
• How meth is becoming a character of its own in the trial
• How David is preparing to try his case in conservative Jackson, Michigan
• Exposing the lies told in deposition by the truck driver’s corporate bosses

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