Litigation Stress: How It Can Affect Characters in Your Story

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Maximillian Schell, defense attorney in "Judgment at Nuremberg"

Writing a story revolving around a lawsuit, or you have a scene or two set in acourtroom? People in litigation, especially those under the stress of being the defendant or even the plaintiff, are often portrayed as "stressed" in such scenes, but their reactions and symptoms are more complex than that.

In fact, there's a term,litigation stress syndrome,for the symptoms people mightsuffer from intense, especially prolonged litigati...