I’d like you to consider the relationship between the theater and being a trial lawyer. As a trial lawyer you need to be a script writer. Not in the sense of making up facts, but in the sense of deciding how to tell the story. The framing you select and the characters you decide to introduce from the actual facts of your case. You need to be the director. You have to decide h0w to present your client’s story and who the characters are you will introduce plus the sequence of doing so. You need to be the main actor in your play. Not by pretending to be someone you are not or putting up a front, but in exactly the opposite way. By being totally open and genuine at all times. To accept the enormous power of telling the truth. Just as an actor must adopt the role of the character he or she is playing, you must full step into the shoes of not only your client but gain an understanding of every witness, the lawyers, the judge and the jury. Put yourself in their shoes. How do they view what you are presenting and how they present it.
Here are some thoughts about acting and the theater you may be able to apply to being a trial lawyer.
