Mock Trial Mentor Gifts

Innocent bystanders are real tough to convict: 'You saw it happen, why didn't you do anything?'

"Where do you see yourself in 20 to 25 years?"

"I always forget what an expert I am in curling."

"I see the White House didn't lower the flag to half staff."

'Your Honor, in order to avoid being sued, we find the defendant 'Not guilty.''

'Don't bite it. I have to check Daddy next.'

So you'd like to be a lawyer...we require honest, genuine people, who are prepared to...learn how to fake sincerity.

Great coaching is about being specific with feedback.

"We pay the living dead wage."

"To be honest, most of our work involves reassuring patients until nature cures them..."

"I'm afraid the diagnosis isn't good."

'Where was I on the night of the 7th of August? I was home washing my hair.'

'I hereby sentence you to 15 months in doctors' waiting rooms!'

Murder trials at the criminal court shown as a theatrical show

'Having done the mentoring skills questionnaire I think I need a mentor to mentor me in improving my mentoring.'

"Alice, please! You're a practice teacher! At some point I have to leave you alone with them!"

"This is the new man. I want you to bring him up to speed."

"Remember the hierarchy of competence - see one, do one, teach one, become a regulator."

"You want to know what kind of criticism of Israeli politics I consider anti-semitic?"

'Your, 'Never can come out in public' session is over. After I leave the room, you come out and slink away!'

The NHS - 'I'm afraid years of neglect and abuse have left her in terminal decline.'

"You mock, sir—you mock a sport storied and beloved. I, sir, pity you."

"Dr. Cosgrove will be here in a minute. He's been cramming for this operation."

"My wife says I bore people to death."

The Prozac Story: 'It's a feel-good movie.'

'It's all very well trainees learning in a classroom setting...'

"It doesn't matter if anyone heard you fall, I am sure we can get you a large cash settlement."

A good future in politics

"That was just a simulation. Nothing can prepare you for the kind of monkey bars you'll find in an actual war zone."

"Now, be careful around here Darling, as if the fall doesn't kill you, the crocodiles will..."

"I could see finding him a cool guy if I wasn't married to him."

"Wait! I know the answer!"

'On days when the stock market suffers sharp losses...it's best not to mention in recovery.'

"I believe I can speak for both of us."