Aug 17, 2026 · 13 min · 9 segments
If you're dealing with a lawyer and feel like you're not completely aligned, this video reveals 5 things your lawyer wishes you knew that could genuinely change the outcome of your case. Rebecca Zung…
And if you're communicating with the other side, make sure it's strategic because understand that every text, every email, anything you put your hand to is a potential trial exhibit.
All right, so every time you hit send, every time you hit post, just imagine the judge like looking over your shoulder and that they might read it.
Okay, you have to understand that when you get emotional, when you get triggered and you send a message, then that becomes evidence and they're actually trying to trigger you into doing that.
Because if they can get you triggered, now they're going to use your reaction against you.
I've had clients who send an email trying to be the bigger person, apologizing for something they hadn't even done wrong, but because they were trying to get the temperature to come down.
A case that he should have won comfortably ended up getting a whole lot harder because now your lawyer's got to do extra work to try to undo that, okay? So the person who's quiet, the person who's strategic, that's the person who has more leverage.
So stop handing over evidence to the other side, all right? Number two is document everything.
And your lawyer is desperate for you to know this because it This is not to say that you don't have a reason to be angry or reason to feel slighted or whatever it is.
So I have won entire trials on people's journals before, the people who really know how to just keep track.
And if you're communicating with the other side, make sure it's strategic because understand that every text, every email, anything you put your hand to is a potential trial exhibit.
All right, so every time you hit send, every time you hit post, just imagine the judge like looking over your shoulder and that they might read it.
Okay, you have to understand that when you get emotional, when you get triggered and you send a message, then that becomes evidence and they're actually trying to trigger you into doing that.
Because if they can get you triggered, now they're going to use your reaction against you.
I've had clients who send an email trying to be the bigger person, apologizing for something they hadn't even done wrong, but because they were trying to get the temperature to come down.
A case that he should have won comfortably ended up getting a whole lot harder because now your lawyer's got to do extra work to try to undo that, okay? So the person who's quiet, the person who's strategic, that's the person who has more leverage.
So stop handing over evidence to the other side, all right? Number two is document everything.
And your lawyer is desperate for you to know this because it This is not to say that you don't have a reason to be angry or reason to feel slighted or whatever it is.
So I have won entire trials on people's journals before, the people who really know how to just keep track.
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