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BASIS AND PREJUDICE; THE CHICKEN LITTLE EFFECT
By Papa Don Keenan “Papa Don, I represent a Labrador and I just know there’s going to be some cats in the jury pool.” “So what?” says I. “Those cats will never give a verdict to a dog, no way!” When...
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By Janeil Morgan, Keenan Law Firm ANNOUNCEMENT FROM PAPA DON: The Keenan Law Firm has re-started its Fellowship Program! This fellowship has produced 5 fellows, each serving a one-year term. The...
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ADVANCES IN MEDIATION
By Papa Don Keenan ANNOUNCEMENT FROM PAPA DON: The Keenan Law Firm has re-started its Fellowship Program! This fellowship has produced 5 fellows, each serving a one-year term. The refresh of this...
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REPLACING “RULES” WITH “DUTY” – RUN FROM IT
By Papa Don Keenan ANNOUNCEMENT FROM PAPA DON: The Keenan Law Firm has re-started its Fellowship Program! This fellowship has produced 5 fellows, each serving a one-year term. The refresh of this...
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Combatting Anti-Edge Arguments at the Root: Presenting at Your State’s Annual...
By Tom Overton and Kari Jones Dulin ANNOUNCEMENT FROM PAPA DON: The Keenan Law Firm has re-started its Fellowship Program! This fellowship has produced 5 fellows, each serving a one-year term. The...
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THE SECOND LEG: EMBEDDING THE STATISTIC
By Papa Don Keenan Often, you’ll have a great statistic, but after the opening statement and the debrief of the jury, they don’t remember it. Obviously, if they don’t remember the statistic, they’re...
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EDGE© AUTOPSY – EDGE© SUPERSTAR JIM SANFORD
By Janeil Morgan, Keenan Law Firm This month’s Edge© superstar is Jim Sanford, founding partner of Gillespie Sanford LLP, where his practice focuses on labor and employment law. Jim first wants to give...
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STATISTIC; THE TAINTED SOURCE
By Papa Don Keenan You’ve gone to great lengths to choose what you think is the greatest statistic… Then you test it, and it crashes and burns; or, worse yet, you don’t test it at all – you walk into...
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Keenan Trial Institute’s Traumatic Brain Injury 3.0
By Mark Milhollin and Brent Crumpton The Keenan Trial Institute (KTI) held its 3rd Annual Traumatic Brain Injury seminar this past Sept. 17-19, 2021. The virtual seminar was moderated by Mindy Bish and...
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NEGOTIATIONS SEVERAL WEEKS OR DAYS FROM TRIAL: THE STRATEGY
By Papa Don Keenan We’ve known for years that one of the tactics of the Taliban and Black Hats is to wait until the very end stage to begin serious negotiations. Let’s explore their Point of View (POV)...
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Happy Thanksgiving
The blog posts will return next week. Until then, we hope you enjoy this holiday weekend.
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Client Biographies: Purpose, Need, Power Of
By David J. Hoey, Dean of Keenan Trial Institute Biographies are accounts of someone’s life written by another. They come in many different lengths and vary widely in the scope of the attention focused...
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ANGER, THE OVERLOOKED EMOTION
By Papa Don Keenan No one can doubt the power of anger as an emotion. We’re all familiar with the three-legged emotional stool: lies, betrayal, and hypocrisy; but anger can serve as an even more...
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EDGE© AUTOPSY- EDGE© SUPERSTAR ADRIAN KARIMI ($276K VERDICT)
By Janeil Morgan, Keenan Law Firm This month’s Edge© superstar is Adrian Karimi. Karimi is an attorney at Ladah Law Firm in Las Vegas, where he practices personal injury law. Karimi learned about the...
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MAJOR TRUTHS WE’VE LEARNED (2022 edition)
By Papa Don Keenan While signing off on the latest manuscript for the Keenan Edge, I thought it might be useful for you (as for me, since I don’t always remember all the things I’ve written about in...
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LENGTHENING THE SHADOW OF THE KTI: HONORING ATTORNEY JOHN M. BOWLER
By Mark F. Milhollin (Note from Papa Don: Mark is now part of the KTI Executive Committee.) If you are reading this, you are probably well aware of the Keenan Trial Institute (KTI) and its mission:...
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CLIENT CONTRACT; ANOTHER VIEW
By Papa Don Keenan There is one aspect of the Keenan Law Firm policy dealing with clients that I’ve never discussed publicly and have only shared a couple of times during workshops. I already expect...
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EDGE© AUTOPSY – EDGE© SUPERSTARS TROY CHANDLER & DEVIN MCNULTY ($30 MILLION...
By Janeil Morgan, Keenan Law Firm This month’s Edge© superstars are Troy Chandler and Devin McNulty. Chandler and McNulty are partners at Chandler McNulty LLP, a personal injury firm dedicated to...
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DIFFICULT DECISIONS; PERSONNEL (THE RIGHT WAY)
By Papa Don Keenan Over my 40 year career some of the most difficult decisions I have had to make are not the ones in the courtroom; rather, it’s the decisions I have had to make in my own office...
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