Litigation lecture at the Bar Association

Lecture on persuasion and performance in front of an audience at the bar association's litigators' conference

The Bar Association holds many conferences for the public of lawyers in order to improve their personal, legal and professional skills. Over the years we have participated in several such conferences:

• In 2009, a lecture on dealing with pressures at the Advocate's House in Jerusalem
• In 2016, a lecture on sales and fees
• And in 2021 at a conference of litigators on the subject of persuasion in front of an audience

Lawyers are not an easy crowd: on the one hand, they have very high demands and very precise needs, where a small difference in performance can mean a huge difference in money (or even someone's choices and life). On the other hand, they are very critical of the lecturers because many of them are sure that they already know everything and there is nothing to teach them...

Therefore, a lecture for lawyers must include a lot of activation and involvement of the audience, and on the other hand must include the highest level of content and rhetoric. the lecture, in collaboration Lawyer Rivka Shapadov, the director of our debate club we held as part of a conference of the Chamber in Ashdod which included a very colorful case of Fear of an audience in front of an audience…