Brian Panish Shoulder to Shoulder with Rex Parris Top Trial Lawyer
I interview Mayor Rex Parris from Lancaster, CA who is recognized as one of the most successful and innovative trial lawyers alive today. Rex handles a wide variety of cases, ranging from severe personal injury to class actions, products liability, and business torts.
Rex has obtained numerous multi-million dollar verdicts, settlements, and judgments on his clients\u2019 behalf, including 2009\u2019s highest jury verdict in the United States ($370 million). \xa0In 2013, PARRIS law firm reached the impressive milestone of over $1 billion in verdicts and settlements.
- How starting as a defense lawyer shaped his abilities to be a great plaintiff lawyer.
- How lawyers can use cognitive science to help improve their persuasion and structure their argument.
- Actions to improve your ability in front of a jury using horizontal segmentation.
- How data and cognitive research will make the current trial system unsustainable in the future.
- His take on facial micro-expression software used in jury trials allowing him to slice up which emotional elements was most amiable to certain parts of the case.
- How anchoring works and keeping the verdict from being \u201cpulled down.\u201d
- The right body postures, eye contact and the critical difference that they can make on the verdict.
- How to counteract the conformity bias.