David Berg Quotes (18 Quotes)

Lay is making eye contact with the jury, and they're not looking away from him, which is a very good sign for Lay.

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They have to find a way to replace the corporate logo, the Enron corporate logo, with the face of a civic-minded Ken Lay, someone who reached out to the community and did an awful lot of good. They have to humanize the client.

Most people are not really conceited, but feel a certain amount of inferiority and tend to get a little discouraged with themselves, therefore encouragement is a very important thing I do it all the time I praise everybody for everything they do that I see is good.

Only individual questioning can flesh out whether the panel is so predisposed against the defendants.

But what a prosecutor wants is someone in the meetings. I think someone has to have rolled over on DeLay.

While the prosecution has said this is about the defendants' lies, one worries that those lies already have been buried under too much discussion of technical issues. The jury may be lost already.

Those of us who watched him in the courtroom know that win or lose, he is one of the best trial lawyers in the country.

At this point, the power of Ken Lays' personality could be what keeps him out of prison. Juries give verdicts to people they like.

There are 4,000 of these cases out there. The black hole gets bigger the more and more they get hit.

The defendants have great lawyers, and great lawyers have to be good storytellers.

It gives the defense hope because their entire defense is that (a) they were unaware of any criminal behavior, and (b) the company really wasn't in financial trouble. Now the jury is going to have to believe they knew of all the elements of the crimes alleged against them.

You cannot be disappointed when you walk out the front door and not into a holding cell. If Mr. Kaufman is disappointed, I am the tooth fairy.

To my knowledge, there's never been a case reversed or stayed because of a venue issue.

These tapes can be the equivalent of a hand grenade with the pin pulled out. If the defense can convince jurors that the government has misled them by only presenting excerpts, then the government will be in deep trouble.

Always remember, everyone is hungry for praise and starving for honest appreciation.

The lawsuits that result from faulty products in this field can bring a company down. Any way you go in this, the only thing you'll wind up with is happy trial lawyers, because this thing is about to explode. It simply doesn't lend itself to a kiss and make up resolution.

Whoever goes first in making their case gets to shape the initial impression a jury gets. That's why you can't wait. You have to begin your case during cross.