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Trial Guides™ is a publishing company featuring educational books, video, audio, and live seminars from the nation's leading trial lawyers, jury consultants and legal experts.

12/29/2025

The tip of the day for December 29th, 2025, comes from Joe Fried’s chapter “Re-defining Your Win" in the book “Winning Settlements, Revised Edition”. Explore practical advice on negotiations, settlement strategy, and long‑term reputation in "Winning Settlements, Revised Edition": https://tr.ee/vySYhZ

“Your credibility is more important than any specific case. Trying to fool the other side does more harm than good, both in the short term and the long term. It will cause you to lose credibility and weaken your case."

12/22/2025

The tip of the day for December 22th, 2025, comes from Elden Rosenthal's book “The Plaintiff Lawyer's Playbook: Insights and Recommendations on How to Prepare for Success in Settling and Trying Cases, Revised Edition”. Learn practical systems for preparing clients so they testify calmly, clearly, and credibly in "The Plaintiff Lawyer's Playbook": https://tr.ee/SFvsux

“Have you ever heard a lawyer lament that a client did a poor job at a deposition? Odds are the complaining lawyer did a poor job of preparing the client. Good lawyering requires careful work with your client to ensure your client's best possible performance."

12/19/2025

The tip of the day for December 19, 2025, features Michael Cowen sharing a quote from his book, "Big Rig Justice: A Comprehensive Guide to Maximizing Value in Truck Accident Cases”. Learn how to use safety rules, industry standards, and economic incentives to maximize the value of truck cases in Big Rig Justice: https://tr.ee/iZb7qI

“You need to know the safety rules to hold unsafe companies accountable. The economic pressure to break the rules is great. Your case needs to impose a cost that eclipses the benefit companies receive from breaking safety rules. You make the world safer by forcing the company to fully compensate your client."

12/18/2025

The tip of the day for December 18th, 2025, comes from Michael Neff's book “Premises Liability: A Guide to Success”. Learn how to turn safety manuals, policies, and documentation questions into powerful liability tools in "Premises Liability: A Guide to Success": https://tr.ee/9jJoNc

“A very good cross-examination question to ask in deposition is, 'Do you agree that what gets documented gets done?' In my experience, most safety people-even those employed by defendants—agree with that premise. Frankly, it is even better if they don't agree; jurors will not believe it."

12/17/2025

The tip of the day for December 17th, 2025, comes from Courtney Rowley & Theresa Bowen Hatch's book “Trial by Woman”. Get your copy today: https://tr.ee/yTMpXA

“Victory comes when you focus on your own path, not when you are constantly comparing yourself to others. Investing in yourself yields the highest returns."

12/16/2025

The tip of the day for December 16th, 2025, comes from Phillip H. Miller & Paul J. Scoptur’s book “Advanced Depositions Strategy and Practice”. Strengthen your cases by identifying who and what can truly verify your key facts—see the approach in Advanced Depositions Strategy and Practice: https://tr.ee/rRyJRt

“It is not enough to merely know the fact or witness. Instead, ask yourself who or what can verify key facts or testimony."

12/15/2025

The tip of the day for December 15th, 2025, comes from Patrick Malone with Rick Friedman's video “Winning Medical Malpractice Cases: With the Rules of the Road™ Technique”. Learn how to use Rules of the Road™ to connect patient stories with jurors’ sense of responsibility in Winning Medical Malpractice Cases: https://tr.ee/im3eQs

“Jurors are like everyone else. They want to be respected and treated as the unique creatures that they are. When they see a fellow human, another patient, not treated right by an uncaring medical system, that can stir them to action. But one more thing is needed. Jurors need to understand their own job in all its civic majesty."

12/12/2025

The tip of the day for December 12th, 2025, comes from Mark Kosieradzki's video “30(b)(6): Deposing Corporations, Organizations & the Government, Third Edition”. Learn how to use 30(b)(6) depositions to uncover key facts and lock in corporate testimony with "30(b)(6): Deposing Corporations, Organizations & the Government, Third Edition": https://tr.ee/CZL5Yc

“The goals of your depositions are not only to discover facts, but also to verify facts and lock down your adversary's positions on known facts."

12/11/2025

The tip of the day for December 11th, 2025, comes from Keith Mitnik’s video “How to Meet & Defeat Challenges of Medical Malpractice Cases”. Build stronger openings, examinations, and closings in medical malpractice cases with proven packaging techniques: https://tr.ee/OPcET8

“We don’t make the facts. We make the difference. How do we make the difference?
Packaging. [...] In this space between the facts and the conclusions is where we become difference makers. How do we become difference makers? [...] We get to go first."

12/10/2025

The tip of the day for December 10th, 2025, comes from Paul Luvera & Lita Barnett Luvera's book “Luvera on Advocacy”. Get your copy today: https://tr.ee/ijwXKD

“Demonstrate that the defendant’s conduct was a series of choices and decisions wrongly made. Identify decisions the defendant could have made differently, which would have prevented the outcome, to help jurors understand that the defendant made wrong choices."

12/09/2025

Stress can build quickly when you move from one hearing, deposition, or trial day to the next with no real break. Dr. Galina Nikolskaya's free live webinar, "Stress Reset for Attorneys: Science-Backed Micro-Practices to Use Between Hearings, Depositions & Trial Days", focuses on brief, practical techniques you can use between these demanding moments so you can return to your work with a bit more ease and clarity.​

In this free program, you will be guided through short, evidence-informed practices designed for lawyers who handle high-pressure matters and need something they can do in a few minutes. The material is centered on realistic situations attorneys face throughout the day, with tools you can apply between professional obligations rather than lengthy routines.​

If you want simple ways to manage tension in the middle of your schedule without stepping away for long, this session was created with that need in mind. The registration page includes full details and access information for the upcoming live webinar. Sign up to attend: https://tr.ee/03VDuU

12/09/2025

The tip of the day for December 9th, 2025, comes from the book “Anatomy of a Personal Injury Lawsuit, Fourth Edition”. Get a step-by-step field manual for every phase of a personal injury case in "Anatomy of a Personal Injury Lawsuit, Fourth Edition": https://tr.ee/ijwXKD

“Modern juries don't want to only hear about the accident or event. They want to feel, smell, and see how it occurred. Large amounts of information often overwhelm jurors and they can become bored, confused, or frustrated when lawyers present highly technical and complex issues."

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Trial Guides is the leader in continuing education for civil plaintiff and criminal defense trial lawyers, with over 125 different skill-specific books, DVDs, CLEs and live webinars online and around the world.

Trial Guides was established in 2004 as a legal media company that helps civil plaintiff's lawyers win. We provide professional educational materials and continuing education seminars, with a wide variety of books and media on the practice of law. Our print, digital, audio, and video titles are known for their accessibility, clarity, and unique focus on the practical aspects of legal practice, with proven tactics and strategy from many of the top lawyers and legal consultants from around the country.

In addition to the nation’s leading trial lawyers, Trial Guides products are used by the U.S. Department of Justice, the ACLU, the Global 100 (largest law firms in the world), the American Association for Justice, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and multiple law schools including Stetson’s LL.M. degree in Advocacy (ranked #1 in U.S. News & World Report for Advocacy 19 times).

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