Hey Reader,

Steve loves Superman. The character and the movie.

He saw it 3 times in the theater.
​Thank you, Regal movie pass.

By the time I went to see it, I already knew:

How good the actor from About a Boy plays a villain (with those eyebrows… can he play anything else?)

The “new angle” on Superman that made it a better story.

And how perfectly supportive his adoptive parents were.

So when I finally watched it on HBO—I turned it off after 10 minutes.

It wasn’t bad.
I just already knew everything I was supposed to notice.
There was nothing left to feel.

Sometimes more background, more explanation, more reasons… are a bad thing.

The extra text message.
The extra witness.
The extra question (that’s really a conclusion).

There’s a moment something lands.
And everything after that starts to take away from it.

If you’ve ever wondered whether you’re saying too much in a cross—
​this episode of our Cross Lab podcast is worth a listen.

Three attorneys cross-examine Steve as a defense radiologist who really wants the jury to believe it’s all pre-existing and soft tissue.

What stands out isn’t the volume of questioning.

It’s how quickly things shift when they stop trying to prove the point and instead let the witness reveal it.

You can feel the difference between building a moment versus overworking it.

And you can see exactly where jurors stay with you—and where they start to drift.

​Take a listen (or watch) HERE.

Your dedicated trial consultants,

P.S. No matter where you are in your career, you’ll bank TONS of fresh storytelling strategies, reusable cross chapters, and imagination-sparking word choices for your next depo or trial.

​Listen to it here.

P.P.S. We’re just about ready to cook up some more episodes. Got a case you want another crack at?

Send it to us and we’ll consider it for a future Cross Lab episode. Always interesting to see what other attorneys would do with it.