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Podcast: Holland & Knight Legal Podcast
Episode: Listen for the Song in Your Witness' Head
Description: In the latest episode of his "Powerful Witness Preparation" podcast series, "Listen for the Song in Your Witness' Head," Holland & Knight litigation attorney Dan Small discusses the all-too-common disconnect between what a lawyer thinks their witness is thinking and what the witness is actually thinking. He explains that the key to building a successful relationship with a witness is to understand your own assumptions, learn their assumptions and then try to pull the two closer together. He uses Los Angeles trial attorney Sidney Kanazawa's metaphor of the song playing in our heads as a way to understand this gap: Both...