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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.

12/05/2025

The tip of the day for December 5, 2025, features Aaron DeShaw sharing a quote from his video, "Writing Demand Letters for Traumatic Brain Injuries”. Strengthen the value of your TBI cases by presenting the combined effects on work, relationships, and daily life with detailed, structured demand letters: https://tr.ee/G8I3qn

“You will never have every single type of loss in TBI cases. But often you will get a combination."

12/04/2025

The tip of the day for December 4th, 2025, comes from David Markowitz's video “Mastering the Art of Persuading the Trial Judge”. See how one of the country’s most respected trial lawyers approaches credibility, reputation, and persuasion before the bench—watch Markowitz’s Mastering the Art of Persuading the Trial Judge: https://tr.ee/nv8CBx

“Established credibility is often a function of reputation. It is not only what the judge has observed but what other judges have observed and reported within their circle."

12/03/2025

The tip of the day for December 3rd, 2025, comes from Chip LaFleur's book “Digital Marketing for Law Firms: The Secrets to Getting More Clients and Better Cases”. Get your copy today: https://tr.ee/i8iYOC

“During the vetting process, check out every aspect of an agency's online presence— not just their home page, but their service area pages, their blog, their social pages, their press releases, and anything else you can dig up. The devil's in the details, and if things get sloppy around the edges of an agency's web presence, you shouldn't trust them to handle your digital marketing strategy."

New Free Webinar! Stress Reset for Attorneys: Science-Backed Micro-Practices to Use Between Hearings, Depositions & Tria...
12/02/2025

New Free Webinar! Stress Reset for Attorneys: Science-Backed Micro-Practices to Use Between Hearings, Depositions & Trial Days with Galina Nikolskaya, M.D. Join us on December 18, 2025, at 8:30 PM ET to learn simple, neuroscience-based tools you can use in 60–120 seconds between high-pressure moments in your practice. Sign up to attend: https://tr.ee/qaHJ7d

Learning Objectives:​
– Understand the neuroscience behind stress in high-intensity legal work
– Learn ultra-practical micro-practices you can use between hearings, depos, and trial days
– Build resilience with brief resets that fit into real-world legal schedules
– Apply science-backed tools to reduce stress without stepping away from your practice

12/02/2025

The tip of the day for December 2nd, 2025, comes from Robert T. Hall & Mila Ruiz Tecala’s book “Grief and Loss: Identifying and Proving Damages in Wrongful Death Cases”. Get your copy today: https://tr.ee/tXCpd0

“The home visit will serve you well. It is an important step to get to know your client and the family."

12/01/2025

The tip of the day for December 1st, 2025, comes from Courtney Rowley & Nick Rowley's chapter "A Running with the Bulls Mini Update” in the book “Winning Settlements, Revised Edition”. Explore proven strategies for winning case value, real-world demand letters, mediation readiness, and trial leverage—all in "Winning Settlements, Revised Edition": https://tr.ee/4Vad4d

“Mediation can be appropriate in some cases, at the right time, and the right conditions. However, if your go-to is mediation, and you don't have your sights set on trial, you won't get the most money and your opponents will use mediation as a way to demoralize your client."

11/26/2025

The tip of the day for November 11th, 2025, comes from the on-demand video “The Power of Presence” from Sari de la Motte and Rick Friedman. Start watching now: https://tr.ee/XDExZs

“Charisma has very little to do with you, it is about how people feel when they are with you."

11/25/2025

The tip of the day for November 25th, 2025, comes from Randi McGinn's book “Changing Laws, Saving Lives: How to Take on Corporate Giants & Win”. Get your copy today: https://tr.ee/azbuR5

“Being a trial lawyer is storytelling on steroids. As a trial lawyer, not only do I write the script for my opening and closing, but I get to direct the production and play one of the starring roles. If I tell my client's story truly and well, through a miraculous kind of verbal alchemy, I can convince a jury of real people to turn that story into justice."

11/24/2025

The tip of the day for November 24th, 2025, comes from Jim Perdue's book “Courtroom Storytelling”. Get your copy today: https://tr.ee/azbuR5

“Avoid the evidence will show or we will call as a witness. Instead, tell the story of the case— what happened to whom, who the defendant is, and why you've sued them."

11/21/2025

The tip of the day for November 21, 2025, features Bill Barton sharing a quote from his book, “Recovering for Psychological Injuries.” Get your copy today: https://tr.ee/JXgcts

“If the defendant is a large corporation, explain that it is only a creature of paper, a money thing, an investment. It has no heartbeat and no body temperature. Its only vital signs are a profit-and-loss statement. This paper creature knows no tears. It is neither inherently moral nor immoral. It understands only profit; it exists only for profit."

11/20/2025

The tip of the day for November 20th, 2025, comes from Keith Mitnik's book “Deeper Cuts: Systems that Simply Work from Winning Workups to Thumbs-Up Verdicts”. See how to avoid common pitfalls, protect your clients, and use proven deposition systems to win—get Keith Mitnik’s Deeper Cuts: https://tr.ee/gGBK7Y

“While defense witness depositions are about gathering soundbites and intel, depositions of your witnesses are about helping them put their best foot forward and not step in pitfalls. It's about mapping out safe passage to a successful outcome."

11/19/2025

The tip of the day for November 19th, 2025, comes from Courtney Rowley & Theresa Bowen Hatch's book “Trial by Woman”. Get your copy today: https://tr.ee/gGBK7Y

“It takes too much energy to be anyone other than ourselves. And people can tell when we're not being ourselves. When we're not being authentic and true to who we really are and what we value, we are not trustworthy."

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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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