How do you become an eloquent speaker?

Greybeard
Thu, 23 Jun 2011 01:30:52 +0000

I spent twelve years as a litigator, and years than that as a transactional attorney.

Eloquence is overrated in the profession of law. There are a few trial lawyers who have made their name by swaying juries in their opening or closing statements, but success in a courtroom (or in negotiating a contract) depends much more upon knowing what to say, and when to say it, than it does upon eloquence.

Knowing what to say, and when to say it, is a function of your knowledge of the applicable law, and the pertinent facts.

Fortune favors the well prepared.