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."

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

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

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

Murder trials at the criminal court shown as a theatrical show

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"My wife says I bore people to death."

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

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

'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.'

'Part of his demands are that we rename the club Real Mourinho.'

Santiago Hernán Solari Poggio