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Perspective

Oct. 12, 2010

Telling Your Story

The way a story is told at trial can win or lose your case. By Los Angeles litigator E. Lynn Malchow.

By E. Lynn Malchow

Stories. As a child, I read them. As a teen, I acted them out. And for the last 25 years, I've told them.

I began telling stories when I became a litigation attorney, specializing in writing briefs. The first involved our firm's client, a prominent Pennsylvania furniture manufacturer that had been sued for antitrust violations by an equally prominent North Carolina furniture distributor. The case was venued in the ...

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