They use a technique called psychodrama to connect better by showing vulnerability.
CARLSBAD — The lawyer stood sobbing in the center of a darkened hotel conference room, ringed by dozens of other personal-injury lawyers.
As the attorney recalled the final moments of his mother's life, his voice cracked and his body shook with repressed grief. And all around the circle, the lawyers watching him also began to weep.
Then the others began to make their own confessions: "My parents died … ," one began, his voice husky with tears. "I was disconnected from my father …," another said. "All of a sudden, I thought about my mother … ," a third added.
In the corner, Jude Basile, a tall, charismatic attorney in black jeans and black cowboy boots — a diamond ring on one finger — nodded approvingly.
Basile is a trial lawyer specializing in wrongful-death and personal-injury lawsuits. He also is a proponent of psychodrama, a group therapy technique that is becoming increasingly popular among lawyers — particularly those who sue big businesses and corporations — as a way to prepare for trial and connect with a jury.
Details here from the Los Angeles Times.