Use Improv Techniques in Your Opening Statement to Win Your Case

Jennifer Strouf and Maria Castagliuolo

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Improvisational techniques such as scene painting and sensory words can aid a jury’s understanding of a situation. — Improvisational techniques such as scene painting and sensory words can aid a jury’s understanding of a situation.

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Improv is more than comedy punched up with quick-witted one-liners. Improvisors think at the top of their intelligence because improv challenges them to use everything they already know and everything they can learn in the moment to spontaneously deliver a thoughtful response.

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