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By Joe Tunstall NOTE FROM PAPA DON: The following article from trial lawyer Joe Tunstall (who also happens to be from my home state of North Carolina) might just change your life. The subject –...
View ArticleTHE FOCUS GROUP THAT CHANGED HISTORY (& WAS BASED ON REPTILIAN ISSUES)
By Don Keenan Lest you think that focus groups first emerged in the 1960s (as embedded with the Mad Men television series where Madison Avenue uses a focus group for effective marketing) or when focus...
View ArticleReptile© Autopsy: Reptile© Superstar Brent Crumpton
By Lauren Bauer, Keenan Law Firm Brent Crumpton spent the first eight years of his career practicing labor and employment defense law. In 2000, after years of a sense of moral emptiness fighting and...
View ArticleNEEDLESS ENDANGERMENT: THE BLACK WIDOW
By Don Keenan Just like you, I fell into using the term “needless endangerment” during depositions and at trial. It was like catnip; fun and exciting, and then suddenly, I realized it was not having...
View ArticleSurviving Challenges of Medical Bills
By Mindy Cohen Note from Papa Don: Mindy is a friend and does great work as a forensic nurse, MSN RN LNCC and a legal nurse consultant for 23 years. She is a Reptile Sponsor and principal of...
View ArticlePERFECTING THE ART OF PERSUASION
By Don Keenan Many lawyers have asked me how I perfect the art of persuasion. Great question, and it has several answers. The first answer is to always believe you can get better. Any fool who has said...
View ArticleTHE EMPTY CHAIR – A CASE KILLER
By Sean Claggett Note from Papa Don: Sean is truly one of our Superstars — not only as part of our Keenan Ball College Faculty but also in the courtroom. He’s an innovator who’s not afraid to push the...
View ArticleFOCUS GROUPS & COMPETENT OUTSOURCING
By Don Keenan If I could wag my tail a bit, I’d like to say I am partly responsible for the massive explosion of focus groups over the past 10 years. Those who know me know there is not a single...
View ArticleREPTILE© AUTOPSY: REPTILE© SUPERSTAR Jonathan Sol Harris
By: Michael Peterson (Interview), Jessica Holthaus Badour (Article), Keenan Law Firm This month’s Reptile© Superstar is Jonathan Sol Harris. Jonathan began his legal career working on the “dark side”...
View ArticleBLACK HATS’ “POV” FOR US
By Don Keenan You know by now that POV is a person’s “point of view,” or if you want to sound a little smarter, you could refer to it as “perspective view,” or if you want to be a Bubba it’s simply...
View ArticleSTORYTELLING IN TRIAL
By Rebecca Freeman Those of us who were lucky enough to attend the latest Advanced Seminar in Costa Rica enjoyed a special treat when Tony Seaton entertained us by telling not one, but two stories...
View ArticleSHORTCUTS; THE CANCER OF THE PLAINTIFF’S TRIAL LAWYER
By Don Keenan Prior to the revolution of the Reptile©, the disease of shortcuts ran rampant among the plaintiff’s bar. The mindset was: “Tell me the tricks I can use,” and “give me that one question I...
View ArticleReptile Autopsy: Reptile Superstar Neil Anthony
Submitted by Neil Anthony Neil P. Anthony is a partner at the Steinger, Iscoe & Greene, based at their West Palm Beach office. He began his career as an Assistant Public Defender. He joined the...
View ArticleASKING FOR THE AMOUNT
By Don Keenan Be careful with the question regarding the amount of the verdict. I am not usually an absolutist regarding specific questions, but for this particular question, I’ve seen too many...
View ArticlePOWERFUL NEW SETTLEMENT TOOL: REPTILEVERDICTS.COM
By Douglas Dykes, Keenan Law Firm Fellow This week’s blog will help guide you through the use of the one and only Reptile© Verdicts and Settlements website, www.reptileverdicts.com. The goal is to make...
View ArticleJUDGES HAVE HEARTS, ALSO (AT LEAST SOME OF THEM DO)
By Don Keenan As I have written since the beginning, sometimes we fail to understand that judges are human beings with hearts and compassion (at least some of them). Most of them really are focused on...
View ArticleREPTILE© AUTOPSY: Reptile© Superstar Brendan Lupetin
Interview by Michael Peterson, Article by Jessica Badour; The Keenan Law Firm This month’s Reptile© Superstar is Brendan Lupetin. Brendan is a partner at Meyers Evans Lupetin & Unatin in...
View ArticleRULES: The Black Hat Way
By Don Keenan When the Reptile© first began using and embedding Rules, the Black Hats reacted as if we had just killed their firstborn; they were giving hair-on-fire proclamations of the end of the...
View ArticleThe Lady Lawyer: A Millennial’s Perspective w/a Musical Twist (“Who Run the...
By Alexa Parr The following article was written by Alexa Parr, a faculty member of the new Keenan Trial Institute’s Women’s Summit, a new elective course added to the KTI which focuses on life as a...
View Article“DAY IN THE LIFE” VIDEO – IS IT TRULY NECESSARY?
By Michael Peterson, The Keenan Law Firm Note from Papa Don: Adam Anderson from Las Vegas has completed his one-year fellowship and will be moving on, just as the prior five fellows did. Our seventh...
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