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Storytelling in the Courtroom
2 students

Storytelling in the Courtroom

A Masterclass
Created byMike DeBlis
Last updated 6/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • Embrace “Raw” Fear
  • Left Brain/Right Brain – What’s the difference?
  • AI and the American Jury System
  • The Case for Storytelling with a “Pinch” of Jury Psychology
  • The Emergence of You
  • How to Find the Artist Inside of You
  • Unleash the Beast: Openly Revealing Your Feelings
  • Your Own Story
  • What Storytelling Isn’t
  • Tips for Building Credibility with the Jury
  • Lesson Learned from “8 Mile”
  • Principals of Primacy
  • Principals of Opening Statement
  • Purpose of Opening
  • The Law of Opening
  • Opening Statement – Be True to You!
  • Storytelling as the Optimal Device for Opening Statement
  • Shifting Sands – How I View “My” Jury
  • What Makes a Great Story
  • Theory
  • Theme
  • Organization for Opening Statement
  • Cast of Characters
  • The Courage to have Strong Opinions
  • Super-objective & Tactics
  • Perspective & Points of View
  • And much, much more!

Course content

5 sections • 5 lectures • 7h 45m total length

  • Introduction

    As a trial lawyer, what do you really need in order to win your case? Attention — the jury’s attention. I don’t mean that in the narcissistic “everyone look at me” sense. When I say every trial lawyer wants more attention, what I mean is that before you can build a rapport with the jury and earn their trust, you have to fight a war — the war for the jury’s attention. “Attention” and “connection” are the key elements needed to win the minds and hearts of the jury.


    Like it or not, we are in the midst of an attention war. We need to confront the reality that the jury’s attention can no longer be taken for granted. We have to change our way of thinking to focus on gaining attention before we can leave lasting impressions. The jury’s attention must be the currency that every trial lawyer trades in. In this presentation, I will talk about how storytelling can help lawyers to cut through all of the noise and distractions of everyday life in order to connect to the jury on a human level.


    This may change the way you see the courtroom. Hold onto your hats and get ready for a wild ride.

Requirements

  • law school education

Description

As a trial lawyer, what do you really need in order to win your case? Attention — the jury’s attention. I don’t mean that in the narcissistic “everyone look at me” sense. When I say every trial lawyer wants more attention, what I mean is that before you can build a rapport with the jury and earn their trust, you have to fight a war — the war for the jury’s attention. “Attention” and “connection” are the key elements needed to win the minds and hearts of the jury.


Like it or not, we are in the midst of an attention war. We need to confront the reality that the jury’s attention can no longer be taken for granted. We have to change our way of thinking to focus on gaining attention before we can leave lasting impressions. The jury’s attention must be the currency that every trial lawyer trades in. In this presentation, I will talk about how storytelling can help lawyers to cut through all of the noise and distractions of everyday life in order to connect to the jury on a human level.


This may change the way you see the courtroom. Hold onto your hats and get ready for a wild ride.

Who this course is for:

  • Trial lawyers
  • Personal injury attorneys
  • Criminal defense attorneys
  • Alternative dispute resolution attorneys
  • law school students
  • mock trial students

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