Snap judgments

The ABA Journal reports on a psychological study suggesting that judges often base their decisions on intuition rather than deliberate analysis. For lawyers, this phenomenon is either a problem or an opportunity. For writing tips on making it the latter, by influencing those judicial snap judgments to go your way, read John Bursch’s excellent article, Appealing to Judicial Snap Judgments. (Note: if you read the Winter 2005 issue of Certworthy, you were on to this problem and John’s tips for dealing with it three years ago.)