I just finished lecturing at the University of Montana Law School’s Advanced Trial Advocacy course designed for fledgling trial lawyers. It was an opportunity to make 4 presentations and I attempted to practice what I preached in Powerful Presentation Handbook. Here it is in a nutshell:Whether your speech is intended to educate, persuade,
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Because the summary chart has now become available, I thought it worthwhile to go back over the importance of this piece of evidence, which I discussed in a prior blog post and incidentally discussed with the audience at last week’s Advanced Trial Advocacy course for new trial lawyers at Montana University Law School. During the Trump
Illustrative Summary ChartThe headline for the May 10, 2024 newspaper article about Trump’s “hush money” trial read “Prosecutors introduce key text and call records into evidence” Then, the article went on to state:After Westerhout (a prosecution witness) left the stand, prosecutors spent the rest of the day calling a series of custodial witnesses to introduce
Get your FREE copy of TRIAL ADVOCACY GOES TO THE MOVIES BOOK – Click here.What do My Cousin Vinny and Atticus Finch have in common? A lot more than you might think. While Atticus Finch’s closing argument in To Kill a Mockingbird continues to inspire viewers to attend law school, the cross-examinations in My
Here are students in my Seattle University Law School’s Pretrial Advocacy course arguing a mock motion during the last class of the course. While King County Superior Court Judge Melinda Young presided over some of the arguments – for instance the one shown here, Judge Patrick Oishi presided over others during this Saturday’s event. This
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Trial lawyers think differently from other human beings when they evaluate a person who might be a witness. First, they evaluate what the person has to offer in the case in the context of the rules of evidence. The trial lawyer ponders whether or not what the witness has to offer is admissible in evidence.
The following is an excerpt from Powerful Presentation Handbook – a book that can serve as a guide whenever you are making a presentation whether it is given in or out of a courtroom.CRAFTING THE CONTENT OF A PRESENTATIONThere are three guiding principles for selecting and designing the content of your presentation: (1) a purpose
For most of the virus isolation year, I worked on a new book—Roadways to Justice: Reforming the Criminal Justice System. The book was published by Full Court Press, Fastcase, Inc.Roadways to Justice is a history of efforts to reform the criminal justice system, and it is somewhat of a memoir. Beginning in
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