Hey Reader,

I’m a die-hard Blockhead — that’s a New Kids on the Block fan.

Their first album turns 40 this week. YIKES.

In other boy band news…

I just watched the Lou Pearlman documentary.
It's a great behind-the-scenes look at boy band sweatshops.

Lou was the man behind *NSYNC, the Backstreet Boys and other alphabet-soup groups. He also ran one of the longest Ponzi schemes in American history, pulling in thousands of investors, many of them elderly Florida retirees.

Most people watched his documentary like a VH1 special.
I watched it like an episode of Dateline.

Searching for the answer to:
Why did he think defrauding Florida retirees was okay?
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(It’s the same dissection we do when we’re prepping attorneys for a difficult deposition or cross.)

Lou’s answer was simple:
He believed he was keeping his entourage employed.

Most witnesses aren’t that easy to read.
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As actors and directors, we’ve spent our careers stepping into other people’s shoes and building the psychology that makes them believable.

And most people have built a “Lou Pearlman” construct:

A version of events that lets them sleep.
The frame that makes their choices logical, their motives clean, their conscience clear.

They're not all liars. (Some are. That's a different email.)

But many of them have a story that protects them.

The expert with the convenient symposium to hide behind.
The exec who delegated just enough to keep their hands clean.
The contractor who followed every protocol right up until the part that matters.

Finding that version of events that casts them as the reasonable, well-meaning protagonist of the story is exactly what Steve and I do.

Before you ever walk into a deposition or cross, we're mapping out:

• Who is this person to themselves?
• What version of events makes them the hero, or at least the reasonable one?
• Where does their story require the most effort to hold together?

Then we build your approach around the answers.

Not to impeach them.
To find the exact moment where their construct collides with reality.

It’s the moment where their story stops protecting them.
And the part that paints a picture of B.S. testimony for a jury.

If you have a deposition or cross coming up and want to walk in knowing exactly where to push, set up a 30-minute consult — even if all you have right now is a name and a date.

👉 Schedule a 30-minute chat with us.

Your dedicated trial consultants,

P.S. If the deposition is still a few weeks away, now's the perfect time to get on it. Our calendar fills up fast!

​Get on our calendar HERE.