EP 711: The Improv Advantage: What Trial Lawyers Can Learn from the Stage Part 1
About this episode
The episode discusses how improv skills can benefit trial lawyers in high-stakes situations.
Listen in as performers, teachers and corporate workshop facilitators from The Improv Shop in St. Louis explain how improv skills map directly into the courtroom, deposition room and any high-stakes conversation where the unexpected is guaranteed to happen. Hosts Erich Veith and Tim Cronin reflect with Ashley Rube and Ryan Myers on one of the most common failure modes they observe in young trial lawyers: rigid adherence to a prepared outline even when a witness hands them something better. The instinct to follow the script, they argue, is trained into law students from day one and it takes real effort to unlearn. Full disclosure: nobody is here to turn lawyers into comedians, but rather how to apply the discipline of presence, collaboration and responsive decision-making of improve to the legal profession.
People in this episode
Hosts: Erich Veith, Tim Cronin
Guests: Ashley Rube, Ryan Myers
Topics covered
- improv skills
- trial lawyers
- courtroom techniques
- high-stakes conversations
- rigid adherence
- collaboration
- responsive decision-making
Keywords
- improv
- trial lawyers
- courtroom
- deposition
- decision-making
- collaboration
- presence
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: The Improv Shop
Places: St. Louis
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