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Why Referring To Your Adversary By Name Can Hurt You

You're watching the opening in a trial here in New York. You learn it's a medical malpractice case and the injured victim suffered permanent disabling injuries.

You notice the formality in the courtroom but importantly, you notice the plaintiff's trial attorney never refers to his adversary by name.

Instead, he calls him "Counsellor," or "My opponent." Sometimes he calls him "The Defendant" or "Defense counsel."

You don't pay much attention to that since the facts of the case are so interesting. Yet all through the case, he never refers to his opponent by his name. How unusual. Or is it?

Want to learn why this experienced trial lawyer doesn't call his adversary by his name?

Watch the video to learn more.

Gerry practices law exclusively in the State of New York. Within New York he practices primarily in the following counties: New York, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, Staten Island, Nassau and Suffolk. Technically, Brooklyn is known as "Kings County," and Manhattan and New York City are known as "New York County." Staten Island is known as "Richmond County." These counties make up the New York metropolitan area.