This statement is considered invoking the “Golden Rule,” an argument that is universally recognized as improper to say and it can actually lead to a mistrial. Civil trial cases are intended to be argued based upon universal and unprejudiced provable facts rather than emotions. But the statement to “put yourself in the client’s shoes,” or to try and imagine, from their perspective, what the client might be going through, isn’t a “provable” perspective. It’s impossible for the jury to understand what the client is thinking and feeling, just as it’s impossible for any human to undeniably know, for a fact, how another person is experiencing their own life or the world around them.