A few Fort Lauderdale personal injury lawyers participated in a recent research study regarding their profession. Out of the 800 attorneys, who voiced their opinion, nearly 70 percent, said that ‘attorneys have become less civil to one another over time.’
Attorneys, as well as doctors, reviewed for an ABA Survey agreed that they would not recommend their profession to a young person wanting to enter their field of expertise. There seems to be a lack of happiness in a profession of lawyers and doctors over the past several years that helps reinforce this recent survey.
Many people believe that lawyers need to be an aggressive jerk or some type of pit-bull in order to get the job done right – which is win your case. This begs the question; does an obnoxious, aggressive attorney succeed where nice guys/attorneys fail? Do juries respect pit-bull type lawyers more than they do the nice guy lawyer approach? tRecent evidence that has been unearthed reveals that juries do not like the more aggressiveattorney and tend to respect a more peaceful, ‘nice guy’ image.
In the book Put Your Best Foot Forward, authors Jo-Ellen Dimitrius and Mark Mazzarella concluded that “aggressive behavior, while sometimes associated with confidence, gives rise to predominately negative impressions of truthfulness, caring, humility and capability.” In general, people like to be led not pushed. An aggressive, in-your-face, dominant approach is often seen as an effort to achieve with force what often cannot be achieved with caring, reasoning and honest behavior.
A Fort Lauderdale personal injury lawyer unveils additional evidence to this point from CLE presentation to the Kansas Bar convention. Questionswere given to either mock or actual exiting jurors in order to rate attorneys. Overall confidence level and credibility were the first two items and individual considering hiring a certain attorney would look at.
The majority of jurors, whether on a personal injury jury or a murder case, find that their only experience is through the television and what they see there is nothing like what it is in real life.
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