Negotiate Your Best Life Podcast with Rebecca Zung What Lawyers Get Wrong About High-Conflict Cases with Rebecca Zung on Negotiate your Best Life #797
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Jan 28, 2026 A breakdown of what makes a conflict truly high-stakes and how emotional tactics derail purely legal strategies. Discussion of why facts without a clear narrative fail and how organized documentation, strategic silence, and consistency regain control. A look at using tools to chronologically reveal manipulation patterns and turn chaos into leverage.
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High-Conflict Opponents Aren't Rational
- High-conflict opponents don't operate rationally and instead use psychological tactics to win.
- Legal reasoning alone fails when opponents provoke, distort timelines, and flood the record with noise.
Facts Need Framing To Matter
- Facts won't speak for themselves without organization, pattern, and clear framing.
- Voluminous raw data often overwhelms lawyers and judges and obscures the client's narrative.
Systemic Assumption Of Reasonability Favors Chaos
- The legal system assumes reasonableness and therefore is poorly equipped for high-conflict personalities.
- Pre-court conflict resolution can feed high-conflict opponents' need for supply and derail outcomes.