McElhaney's Trial Notebook

McElhaney's Trial Notebook

Author: James W. McElhaney

Publisher: American Bar Association

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 802

ISBN-13: 9781590315033

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"Trial Notebook" offers hundreds of techniques and tactics for every stage of a trial's progress in spare, lively, memorable prose. Users get strategies grounded in actual courtroom experience that will improve the effectiveness of their advocacy.


McElhaney's Litigation

McElhaney's Litigation

Author: James W. McElhaney

Publisher: American Bar Association

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9780897079549

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This guide provides the reader with clear, ready-to-use techniques that will make them a better trial lawyer and sharpen their understanding of the basics. serves as a resource for questioning and selecting a jury.


Maccarthy on Cross-examination

Maccarthy on Cross-examination

Author: Terence MacCarthy

Publisher: American Bar Association

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9781590318867

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Learn how to look good on cross, even when the witness is not cooperating. Learn how to manage and effectively minimize the witness's involvement, without appearing controlling, extracting, and insulting. Filled with illustrative cross examinations from actual cases, this book is your key to employing these proven techniques in your own practice. Using the three themes that run through out the book--looking good, telling a story, and using short statements--you can take control of your cross examinations and achieve the results you desire.


Theater Tips and Strategies for Jury Trials

Theater Tips and Strategies for Jury Trials

Author: David A. Ball

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13:

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In this new, third edition of Theater Tips and Strategies for Jury Trials, David Ball updates his methods and approaches to jury persuasion. This practical step-by-step guide helps you navigate the changes that occur in jury trials instead of being blindsided by them. Based on both research and the experience of lawyers and trial consultants across the country, Theater Tips and Strategies for Jury Trials, Third Edition, presents techniques of the stage and screen you can use to win in the courtroom. Ball tells how to use theater concepts to persuade and motivate jurors. He tells attorneys how to look, talk, and act naturally, and to communicate the truth clearly and memorably, so they gain trust and credibility from judges and jurors. Ball provides practical guidance for voir dire, openings and closings, testimony, and focus groups. He describes what practitioners can learn from actors about their manner, voice projection, and behavior. He explains how to grab the jury from the beginningjust as a good movie opening captures the audience. He details how to prepare your {28}cast.


Modern Trial Advocacy

Modern Trial Advocacy

Author: Steven Lubet

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 584

ISBN-13:

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"This book will become a standard in the field of trial advocacy. It's the most thoughtful, concise, & theoretically correct book to be published."--Morgan Cloud, Professor, Emory University School of Law renowned full trial programs use the text, as do prominent law schools nationwide. Now, Steven Lubet takes advocates from developing a winning case theory through all phases of trial. He tells how to present your case as a story, & how to tell that story to the jury powerfully & persuasively. This second edition includes three significant additions: a trial tools chapter, a persuasion theory chapter, & an expanded jury selection chapter. In the new chapter on trial tools you discover persuasion techniques you can use throughout the trial. For example, you will learn how to present information for the greatest impact, how to use powerful, convincing language, & how to gain trust & credibility from judges & jurors. The added persuasion theory chapter gives you insight into how judges & jurors make decisions so you can most effectively shape your argument & approach & the expanded jury selection chapter teaches you strategies to eliminate biased jurors, gather information about eventual jurors that will help you present your case more effectively, & begin to tell your story to the jury. Whether you're an experienced or novice practitioner, you can't afford to be without this text.


Basic Trial Advocacy

Basic Trial Advocacy

Author: Peter L. Murray

Publisher: Tower Publishing Company

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781932056969

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Basic trial advocacy is the classic text on the presentation of civil and criminal cases in court. Since its publication in 2005 it has been used in countless law school and continuing professional education programs to impart with clarity and simplicity the basic skills of effective trial presentation. It is a useful guide and refresher even for the experienced practitioner when going to court.


Modern Trial Advocacy

Modern Trial Advocacy

Author: Steven Lubet

Publisher: Aspen Publishing

Published: 2019-07-28

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 1601568274

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Now in its fourth edition, Modern Trial Advocacy: Canada is the first and last word in Canadian trial practice. This classic handbook, published by the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, gives practitioners a detailed road map for conducting a trial. Expanding on the original text written by Steven Lubet for an American audience, experienced Toronto trial lawyers Cynthia Tape and Julie Rosenthal guide the beginning advocate in developing a winning case theory through all phases of trial. They explain how to present a case as a story – and powerfully and persuasively tell that story to the jury. Modern Trial Advocacy: Canada provides not only Canadian case law and statutes, but also valuable insight into the specific elements of Canadian litigation practice as itpresents a realistic and contemporary approach to learning and developing trial advocacy skills. This book offers a sophisticated, theory-driven approach to advocacy training that distinguishes it from other books in the field. The fourth edition has been updated with current citations to case law, statutes, and rules and the latest “best practices” for using technology in the courtroom.


Evidentiary Foundations

Evidentiary Foundations

Author: Liz Heffernan

Publisher: Bloomsbury Professional

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781845927875

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Irish Law Based on the 6th edition of Professor Imwinkelried's authoritative American text, Evidentiary Foundations, and amended for the Irish market, this title is a practical guide which explains how the various evidentiary doctrines are applied on a daily basis in the Irish courts. Combining discussion of law and practice, the authors outline a step-by-step approach to laying the necessary foundations for the introduction of items of evidence. Using hypothetical examples, the title illustrates how the substantive rules of evidence convert into concrete lines of questioning in the courtroom. This is the first book of its kind on the Irish market and will provide invaluable practical guidance for practitioners and students of the law of evidence.