I authored an article on Texas' standard(s) for proof of causation that appeared in this week's Texas Lawyer and it contains an error. In discussing Merck v. Garza I somehow managed, during the process of editing the article down to the target word count, to associate the citation from the original appellate court opinion with the decidedly different conclusion reached by the Texas Supreme Court to which I was referring. My bad.
The speaker, then, should possess the faculties of Invention, Arrangement, Style, memory, and Delivery. Invention is the devising of matter, true or plausible, tht would make the case convincing. Arrangement is the ordering and distribution of the matter, making clear the place to which each thing is to be assigned. Style is the adaptation of suitable words and sentences to the matter devised. Memory is the firm retention in the mind of the matter, words, and arrangement. Delivery is the graceful regulation of voice, countenance, and gesture.
- Cicero "Ad Herennium"
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