Often, the most skilled attorneys aren’t the most eloquent or the most knowledgeable. They are the ones who can craft the facts into the thing the brain most easily remembers – a story.

Lawyers shy away from asking a witness to tell their “story” because that word story implies something less than the truth.

But the truth is a story.

The telling of a legal story is distinctive. It is governed by the Rules of Evidence and other codes, but anytime a motion is filed, a brief is written, or a trial is held – a story is being told.

What story are you telling?