Dr. Noelle Nelson

You Need a Timeline!

Timelines are essential to just about any case. I’ve been teased by various attorneys I’ve worked with that I always recommend a timeline, and indeed it’s true. But there is a method to my repeated “You need a timeline!” The movement of events across time is how jurors anchor testimony in their minds. It’s how […]

Quit Inflicting “BUT” on Yourself!

While I was waiting for my dance class to start, I watched an instructor patiently coach a couple through what was obviously one of their first lessons. The instructor was having them do a “box step,” which is what it sounds like. A “box” made with your feet. It consists of two parts, a forward […]