The week before a major trial is the week most lawyers handle worst, and the week with the highest leverage.
The legal work is done. You know the facts, the witnesses, the theory of the case. What you do now determines whether you sleep, whether you can hold focus through opening, and whether you have anything left in the tank by day three.
This guide covers the seven days before trial, the morning of opening, the in-courtroom resets no one will notice you doing, and the recovery work after the verdict comes down. Specific protocols with times attached. No equipment. No buy-in required from anyone but you.
Written by a former Manhattan ADA under Robert Morgenthau, former public defender, and former Chief Counsel to a U.S. Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution, now a certified practitioner in breathwork, EFT, hypnosis, and NLP working with senior trial lawyers on state and performance.
17 pages.