{"id":3662,"date":"2016-12-03T07:22:26","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T12:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=3662"},"modified":"2016-12-03T07:22:26","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T12:22:26","slug":"hyperbole-will-destroy-case-understatement-will-save","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/12\/03\/hyperbole-will-destroy-case-understatement-will-save\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Hyperbole Will Destroy Your Case and Understatement Will Save It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"author_link\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/lawyerist.com\/author\/brendan-kenny\/\">Brendan Kenny<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hyperbole and overstatement do more harm than good. Hyperbole is exaggeration. Overstatement is an attempt to convince your audience by bludgeoning them with facts, arguments, and pleas to get them to accept your assertion.<\/p>\n<p>If you tell your audience what they should think, don\u2019t be surprised if they think the opposite just to spite you. Lawyers do much better when we calmly and methodically lead our audience to the conclusion we want them to reach, but allow them to reach it themselves. It\u2019s called understatement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Methinks They Doth Protest Too Much<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As Justice Scalia advised, \u201cYour objective in every argument \u2026 is to show yourself as worthy of trust and affection.\u201d<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/lawyerist.com\/113227\/hyperbole-will-destroy-case-understatement-will-save\/#fn1-113227\">1<\/a><\/sup> A good\u00a0way to lose your case is to lose the trust of the judge and jury. This is easily done. Just add some sarcasm and snark:<\/p>\n<p>This is the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Straw_man\">straw man fallacy<\/a> in reverse. Above, the association gives itself a burden that civil litigants\u00a0never have: proving that their opponent\u2019s arguments are frivolous. Now all the plaintiff needs to do is provide a non-frivolous theory of why the association could be responsible for the brakes, clutches, and gaskets. In this way, the association\u2019s overstatement tends to reduce the plaintiff\u2019s burden of proving their case.<\/p>\n<p>Consider the FBI\u2019s response to Defendant Jay Michaud\u2019s argument that the FBI concealed information from courts and prosecutors about how the malware it installed through a child pornography site operated:<\/p>\n<p>In short, Michaud\u2019s argument is outrageous, untrue, and not even supported by the flimsy \u201cevidence\u201d he offers.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/lawyerist.com\/113227\/hyperbole-will-destroy-case-understatement-will-save\/#fn2-113227\">2<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>If Mr. Michaud can provide some\u00a0facts and reasoning in support of his argument, he wins a battle he is ideally suited to win. The FBI\u2019s overstatement presents Mr. Michaud with a challenge that a competent lawyer can likely meet: show that Mr. Michaud\u2019s argument is not outrageous, not obviously untrue, and supported by some evidence. And the FBI needlessly risks losing a battle it\u00a0never needed to fight by making\u00a0an argument it\u00a0probably can\u2019t win.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You\u00a0Shall Know These Lawyers by Their Insincerity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If the judge or the jury suspects that you don\u2019t buy your own argument, they probably won\u2019t bother listening to it. Consider this fact pattern:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Plaintiffs sue a cruise liner for overcharges added to the price of shore excursions;<\/li>\n<li>They state under oath that they would have gone on the shore excursions no matter how much they cost; and<\/li>\n<li>They later describe the surcharge as \u201cimmoral, unethical, oppressive, and\/or unscrupulous\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The court\u2019s reaction shouldn\u2019t surprise anyone:<\/p>\n<p>We also note that the Wangs stated they did not care what the excursions cost. It is therefore less than convincing that they are now outraged by the allegedly \u201chuge\u201d (fn. 6, ante) surcharge.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/lawyerist.com\/113227\/hyperbole-will-destroy-case-understatement-will-save\/#fn3-113227\">3<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Playing loose with the facts invites your audience to question your sincerity and suspect that you are trying to manipulate them. They may retaliate by rejecting your client. In short: avoid even the appearance of insincerity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Unexamined Case Is Not Worth Trying<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to Aristotle, \u201cKnowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.\u201d Here\u2019s why we should apply this adage to our cases:<\/p>\n<p>That is, we are used to thinking that our own case is better, and it often is.\u00a0 But that perceived advantage shouldn\u2019t blind us to the merits of the other side.\u00a0 Another recent study (<a href=\"http:\/\/gpi.sagepub.com\/content\/early\/2010\/09\/02\/1368430210370042.abstract\">Lammers, 2010<\/a>), found that\u00a0when you perceive yourself to be at an advantage in a negotiation setting, that causes you to\u00a0think of an\u00a0opponent in less\u00a0personalized, and less\u00a0human, terms. When we advocate, we\u00a0exaggerate our strengths\u00a0and we minimize our opponents\u2014to our detriment.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/lawyerist.com\/113227\/hyperbole-will-destroy-case-understatement-will-save\/#fn4-113227\">4<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>If you\u00a0exaggerate the strength of your client\u2019s case in your mind, you will naturally do the same in your\u00a0written and oral advocacy. Because your\u00a0tone doesn\u2019t fit the case that the judge and the jury are learning about, they will soon start doubting your honesty, sincerity, and competence.<\/p>\n<p>And if the way lawyers behave at depositions accurately reflects their mental state, most of us have a lot of room for improvement. In this excerpt,\u00a0it\u2019s hard to see how the objecting attorney\u2019s strategy here helps his client:<\/p>\n<p>Compare that performance with the deposing attorney\u2019s questioning (ending at 18:27) of a slippery witness in a defamation case:<\/p>\n<p><strong>The First Rule of Narrator Club: Don\u2019t Be Unreliable<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Unreliable_narrator\">unreliable narrator<\/a> is a narrator whose credibility has been seriously compromised. Think of Verbal in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Usual_Suspects\">The Usual Suspects<\/a>, Leonard in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Memento_%28film%29\">Memento<\/a>, and the narrator in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fight_Club\">Fight Club<\/a>. For different reasons, all three are\u00a0unreliable. Lawyers who are unreliable narrators typically fall into three categories: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Unreliable_narrator\">the Picaro, the Naif, and the Liar.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Picaro is an exaggerator and braggart, the Naif\u2019s unobjective viewpoint limits his perception, and the Liar deliberately misrepresents herself to obscure the weakness in her own case. Lawyers who fit these descriptions lose the trust of judges and jurors:<\/p>\n<p>If you distort or even fudge, you\u2019ll be found out. And if you\u2019re found out, you\u2019ve lost everything there is to lose. You\u2019ve lost credibility.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/lawyerist.com\/113227\/hyperbole-will-destroy-case-understatement-will-save\/#fn5-113227\">5<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Whether the lawyer is morally culpable for losing the trust of the judge or the jury, the result is the same: no one will listen.<\/p>\n<p>Now for the fun part. Let\u2019s look at how we can respond when lawyers throw overstatement in our direction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Appetite for (Self) Destruction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The key to\u00a0defeating overstatement is realizing that it contains\u00a0the seeds of its own destruction. In a type of verbal judo, your opponent\u2019s overstatement exposes them to a counterattack. The\u00a0power of your counterattack depends on how well you take the force of their overstatement and hurl it back at them.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the best way to deal with an overstater is to present the court or the jury with the most extreme statements from your opponent and then move on. Bryan Garner provides a great example from a reply brief:<\/p>\n<p>In what must be some kind of record, the 31 pages of Plagiar\u2019s brief contain more than 200 expressions bordering on the hysterical: the leader by all counts is <em>abusive<\/em> and its variations (17 appearances), next followed by permutations of the root word <em>fraud<\/em> (fraudulent, defrauded) (14), then <em>extort<\/em> (extortion, extorted) (13), and close behind it <em>phony<\/em> (12).<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/lawyerist.com\/113227\/hyperbole-will-destroy-case-understatement-will-save\/#fn6-113227\">6<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Now it\u2019s time to find out how we can avoid ending up like Plagiar\u2019s lawyer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lend Me Your Ears<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Elements-Style-William-Strunk-Jr\/dp\/1557427283\"><em>The Elements of Style<\/em><\/a>, Strunk and White note that it is \u201cseldom advisable to tell all.\u201d This is particularly true in fiction:<\/p>\n<p>One of the most useful and powerful devices for the fiction writer is understatement. You tell the reader less so that the reader knows more. Instead of having everything spelt (sic) out, the reader is given, in a very careful way, just enough information for the imagination to go to work.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/lawyerist.com\/113227\/hyperbole-will-destroy-case-understatement-will-save\/#fn7-113227\">7<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>When you use understatement, your audience fills in the blanks you have left with facts in your favor and comes to their own conclusion\u2014the conclusion to which you led them. In this way, minimizing the significance of something maximizes its effect. Let\u2019s look at the three main flavors\u00a0of understatement: litotes, euphemism, and meiosis.<\/p>\n<p>Litotes is deliberate understatement that works by making your point by stating the opposite of what you mean. In this <a href=\"http:\/\/courts.delaware.gov\/opinions\/download.aspx?ID=217650\">example<\/a>, the court highlighted the plaintiff\u2019s questionable mental health by praising his creativity:<\/p>\n<p>Euphemism is a polite way of saying something unpleasant. In law, this means going to great lengths to avoid calling\u00a0someone\u00a0a liar, as the Idaho Industrial Commission takes pains to do in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iic.idaho.gov\/decisions\/2010\/02_10\/cuevas_v_nederend_dairy.pdf\">order<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>As noted at the outset, although the Commission has no reason to believe the Claimant intentionally dissembled the truth, he is a poor historian, with a somewhat fallible memory, both problem which are compounded by his limited education and language difficulties.<\/p>\n<p>Meiosis (\u201clessening\u201d) combines understatement and euphemism to enhance the impression in the reader or the hearer, as Bryan Garner\u2019s example illustrates:<\/p>\n<p>Dagwood wakes up late, trips over the children\u2019s toys,\u00a0misses the bus, rushes up the stairs instead of waiting for the\u00a0elevator, only to discover that it\u2019s Saturday and he\u2019s not supposed\u00a0to be at work. Dagwood grumbles, \u201cToday is not my lucky day.\u201d<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/lawyerist.com\/113227\/hyperbole-will-destroy-case-understatement-will-save\/#fn8-113227\">8<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>After reading this, the reader ratchets up Dagwood\u2019s description of his difficulties to the level that the reader thinks is appropriate. With each understatement, Dagwood\u2019s credibility increases.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wisdom of the Crowd<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mercutio wins the prize for greatest understatement:<\/p>\n<p>Mercutio downplayed his own fatal wound. This makes his death all the more tragic. And he dies the way he lived, defiantly rejecting haughtiness, melancholy, and sentimentality.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers can learn much from Mercutio. Lawyers often mistakenly appeal heavily to the jury\u2019s sympathy when trying a case, especially when they are representing the plaintiff. But sympathy is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.persuasivelitigator.com\/2016\/01\/treat-sympathy-as-a-low-power-strategy.html#more\">low-power strategy<\/a>.\u00a0Much better to offer facts that encourage your audience to view your client as the tragic hero who suffers adversity, challenges it, and never gives up. The lawsuit then becomes part of the hero\u2019s journey. Ultimately, the judge and jury must intervene only because the hero cannot overcome the injury on their own.<\/p>\n<p>This is a much stronger call to action than sympathy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>One Little Barbed Arrow Is Enough<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If for no other reason, lawyers should use understatement because it makes our opponents scared. Here\u2019s how\u00a0Anglican clergyman Charles Kingsley addressed Catholic convert John Henry Newman\u2019s effective use of understatement:<\/p>\n<p>I know that men used to suspect Dr. Newman\u2014I have been inclined to do so myself\u2014of writing a whole sermon, not for the sake of the text or of the matter, but for the sake of one single passing hint\u2014one phrase, one epithet, one little barbed arrow which, as he swept magnificently past on the stream of his calm eloquence, seemingly unconscious of all presences, save those unseen, he delivered unheeded, as with his finger-tip, to the very heart of an initiated hearer, never to be withdrawn again. I do not blame him for that. It is one of the highest triumphs of oratoric power, and may be employed honestly and fairly, by any person who has the skill to do it honestly and fairly. But then\u2014Why did he entitle his sermon \u201cWisdom and Innocence\u201d?<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/lawyerist.com\/113227\/hyperbole-will-destroy-case-understatement-will-save\/#fn9-113227\">9<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Because Newman never wrote anything to justify Kingsley\u2019s allegations, Kingsley was reduced to warning his readers not to trust Newman, no matter what Newman wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The result? Newman skewered Kingsley for deeply wronging him in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apologia_Pro_Vita_Sua\"><em>Apologia Pro Vita Sua<\/em><\/a>, the book became a bestseller, and Newman later became Cardinal Newman. Not much more was heard from Kingsley.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Be Direct<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Understatement is a powerful weapon.\u00a0But don\u2019t\u00a0use jargon-laden legalese and call that understatement. Legalese is the enemy of effective understatement, persuasion, and all things bright and beautiful. It invites this response:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Comas Are Serious<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One other thing understatement is not: a less-than-human reaction to your client\u2019s\u2014or the opposing party\u2019s\u2014difficulties. As we learn from The Smiths\u2019\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/3GhoWZ5qTwI\">Girlfriend In A Coma<\/a>, being too casual about tragedy can be a bit creepy:<\/p>\n<p>Girlfriend in a coma, I know<br \/>\nI know, it\u2019s serious<br \/>\nGirlfriend in a coma, I know<br \/>\nI know, it\u2019s really serious<\/p>\n<p>There were times when I could<br \/>\nHave murdered her<br \/>\nBut you know, I would hate<br \/>\nAnything to happen to her<\/p>\n<p>This type of humorous creepiness makes for good music, but poor persuasion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Blindside<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Judges and juries probably expect you to exaggerate. So, defy expectations and strengthen your position by understating it. If nothing else, at least you\u2019ll scare your opponent.<\/p>\n<p><small>Featured image: \u201cIllustrations from \u201cLe avventure di Pinocchio, storia di un burattino\u201d, Carlo Collodi, Bemporad &amp; figlio, Firenze 1902\u2033&gt;Wikimedia Commons.\u201d The image has been cropped at the edges.<\/small><\/p>\n<hr class=\"footnotes\" \/>\n<ol class=\"footnotes\">\n<li id=\"fn1-113227\">Antonin Scalia\u00a0&amp; Bryan A. Garner, Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges xxxiii (ThomsonWest) (1st ed. 2008).\u00a0<a class=\"backlink\" title=\"Jump back to footnote 1 in the text.\" href=\"https:\/\/lawyerist.com\/113227\/hyperbole-will-destroy-case-understatement-will-save\/#rf1-113227\">\u21a9<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"fn2-113227\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/2824862-Show-Temp.html\">Gov\u2019t\u2019s Consolidated Response Defs.\u2019 Mot. Dismiss &amp; Reply Re Mot. Reconsid.<\/a>,\u00a0<em>U.S. v. Michaud<\/em>, No. CR 15-5351 RJB, at *8 (W.D. Wash. May 6, 2016).\u00a0<a class=\"backlink\" title=\"Jump back to footnote 2 in the text.\" href=\"https:\/\/lawyerist.com\/113227\/hyperbole-will-destroy-case-understatement-will-save\/#rf2-113227\">\u21a9<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"fn3-113227\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.courtlistener.com\/opinion\/2256467\/princess-cruise-lines-ltd-v-superior-court\/\"><em>Princess Cruise Lines<\/em> <em>v. Wang, et al.<\/em><\/a>, 179 Cal. App. 4th 36, 45 fn.6 (2009).\u00a0<a class=\"backlink\" title=\"Jump back to footnote 3 in the text.\" href=\"https:\/\/lawyerist.com\/113227\/hyperbole-will-destroy-case-understatement-will-save\/#rf3-113227\">\u21a9<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"fn4-113227\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.persuasivelitigator.com\/2011\/01\/by-dr-ken-broda-bahm-legal-readers-of-the-blog-should-be-proud-to-be-part-of-a-system-that-however-imperfectly.html#more\">Don\u2019t Advocate from a Position of Hate<\/a>,\u00a0<em>Persuasive Litigator<\/em>,\u00a0http:\/\/www.persuasivelitigator.com (Jan. 16, 2011).\u00a0<a class=\"backlink\" title=\"Jump back to footnote 4 in the text.\" href=\"https:\/\/lawyerist.com\/113227\/hyperbole-will-destroy-case-understatement-will-save\/#rf4-113227\">\u21a9<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"fn5-113227\">Bryan A. Garner, The Winning Brief 338 (Oxford University Press) (2d ed. 2003).\u00a0<a class=\"backlink\" title=\"Jump back to footnote 5 in the text.\" href=\"https:\/\/lawyerist.com\/113227\/hyperbole-will-destroy-case-understatement-will-save\/#rf5-113227\">\u21a9<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"fn6-113227\">Bryan A. Garner, The Winning Brief 42 (Oxford University Press) (2d ed. 2003).\u00a0<a class=\"backlink\" title=\"Jump back to footnote 6 in the text.\" href=\"https:\/\/lawyerist.com\/113227\/hyperbole-will-destroy-case-understatement-will-save\/#rf6-113227\">\u21a9<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"fn7-113227\"><a href=\"https:\/\/janefriedman.com\/understatement\/\">The Power of Understatement in Fiction Writing<\/a>,\u00a0https:\/\/janefriedman.com (Sept. 10, 2013).\u00a0<a class=\"backlink\" title=\"Jump back to footnote 7 in the text.\" href=\"https:\/\/lawyerist.com\/113227\/hyperbole-will-destroy-case-understatement-will-save\/#rf7-113227\">\u21a9<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"fn8-113227\">Bryan A. Garner, The Elements of Legal Style 154 (Oxford Univeristy Press) (2d ed. 2002).\u00a0<a class=\"backlink\" title=\"Jump back to footnote 8 in the text.\" href=\"https:\/\/lawyerist.com\/113227\/hyperbole-will-destroy-case-understatement-will-save\/#rf8-113227\">\u21a9<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"fn9-113227\">Venerable John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua 33 (Oxford University Press) (1913).\u00a0<a class=\"backlink\" title=\"Jump back to footnote 9 in the text.\" href=\"https:\/\/lawyerist.com\/113227\/hyperbole-will-destroy-case-understatement-will-save\/#rf9-113227\">\u21a9<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source <a href=\"https:\/\/lawyerist.com\/113227\/hyperbole-will-destroy-case-understatement-will-save\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/lawyerist.com\/113227\/hyperbole-will-destroy-case-understatement-will-save\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">By Brendan Kenny Hyperbole and overstatement do more harm than good. 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