Henry Miller - The Trial
Friday, October 9, 2009
- Location -
Melville Marriott Long Island
1350 Old Walt Whitman Road
Melville, NY
(631) 423-1600
7.5 TOTAL CREDITS
6.5 credit hours in skills; 1.0 credit hour in ethics
8:30 – 9:00
a.m. Registration (outside meeting room)
9:00 –
12:45 p.m.
A. The Prologue
• The Trial is the Thing
• Preparing for the Role
• Henry’s Rules on Setting the Stage
B. Jury Selection
• The 44
blunders (some)
• Trusting You
• Confess Weakness
• Sound the Theme
C. Opening – The Twenty-Seven Steps (Some)
• A Persuasive Story
• Make Weakest Point Strongest Point
• Talk Like a Human Being
• Demonstration
D. Direct Exam
• The
thirty-one pertinent pointers (some)
• Preparing the witness
• Getting off the stage
• Leading questions
• Show don’t tell
E. Cross-Examination
• Four Rules – But with a But
(some)
• Pin Down
• Ideas Not Notes
• Impeachment
• Save the Zingers
Note:
There will be a 15 minute refreshment break during the morning
session.
12:45 –
2:00 Lunch (on your
own)
2:00 –
5:00
F. Experts
• Twenty Pungent Proverbs
(some)
• The Daubert Debacle
• Conviction
• A Teacher
• CBS (Compression, Brevity, Simplicity)
G. Summation
• An Outline
• Anticipate the Judge’s Charge
• Find the Winning Reason
• Demonstration
H. The Ordeal
• The Charge: Objections
• Waiting for the Verdict: Questions and Readbacks
• Motions
I. Ethics (50 minutes)
• Professionalism, yes
• Rambo, no
• Honoring Your Client
• Honoring the Court
• Honoring Yourself
J. Surviving
• Living with Defeat
• The Old Trial Lawyer
• The Young Trial Lawyer
K. Trials of Oscar Wilde and Alger
Hiss
Note:
There will be a 15 minute refreshment break during the afternoon
session.
5:00
p.m. Adjournment
The Presenter
Henry G. Miller has
been actively trying cases for over 40 years.
A senior member of
Clark, Gagliardi & Miller, P.C., in White Plains, Henry Miller
represents plaintiffs in a wide range of areas, including product
liability, commercial, medical malpractice, automobile, premises,
construction, ex abuse, legal malpractice, discrimination,
whistleblower, real estate, dram shop and estate disputes.
Henry Miller is
Past President of both the New York State and Westchester County Bar
Associations. He is one of very few trial attorneys in the country
who was both a Regent of the American College of Trial Lawyers and
a Director of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, two of the
most prestigious national trial lawyer associations. He has been an
Adjunct Professor of Law at St. John’s Law School. Henry Miller
frequently appears on television and radio and has written extensively
on trial practice.
He is the author of
Settlements in the Art of Advocacy series as well as the editor of the
New York Practice Guide on Negligence, both published by Matthew
Bender and most recently he authored, On Trial: Lessons from a Lifetime
in the Courtroom, published by ALM Publishing. He has written the Ethics
Chapter in the American Trial Lawyers Association’s text on
Plaintiff’s Personal Injury Litigation called “Atla’s
Litigating Tort Cases.”
Additional
Speaker
Long Island
only: Emmet J.
Agoglia, Esq., Agoglia, Holland & Agoglia, P.C.,
Jericho
Directions
From Eastern Long Island: Take the Long Island Expressway (495) West to
Exit 49 North (Route 110 Huntington). Stay on the Service Road and after
the second light, the hotel is on the right hand side. From Western Long
Island: Take the Long Island Expressway (495) East to Exit 49 South
(Route 110 Huntington). Make a left at the first light into Old Walt
Whitman Road. Stay on Old Walt Whitman Road and the hotel will be on the
right side. From the Northern State Parkway: Take the Northern State
Parkway to Exit 40 South (Route 110 South). Continue to the westbound
Service Road of the Long Island Expressway (495) West. Make a left onto
the Service Road and the hotel will be on your right hand side. From the
Southern State Parkway: Take the Southern State Parkway to Exit 32 North
(Route 110 Huntington) to the Service Road of the Long Island Expressway
(495) West. Make a left onto the Service Road and the hotel will be on
your right hand side. From MacArthur (Islip) Airport: Take Veterans
Memorial Highway (Junction 454) Northbound to the Long Island Expressway
(495) West to Exit 49 North (Route 110 Huntington) Continue on the
Service Road and the hotel is just past the second light on the right
hand side. From LaGuardia Airport: Take the Grand Central Parkway
Eastbound to the Northern State Parkway East to Exit 40 South (Route 110
South) Continue to the Westbound Service Road of the Long Island
Expressway (495). Make a right at the light onto the Service Road and
the hotel is on the right hand side. From JFK Airport: Take the JFK
Expressway East to the Belt Parkway East and follow the signs to the
Southern State Parkway East. Take the Southern State Parkway to Exit 32
North (Route 110 Huntington). Make a left onto the Westbound Service
Road of the Long Island Expressway (495) and the hotel will be on your
right hand side. From Newark International Airport: Take the New Jersey
Turnpike North (Route 95) to Exit 13. To the Verrazanno Bridge. From the
bridge take the Belt Parkway East to the Cross Island Parkway North to
the Long Island Expressway East to Exit 49 South (Route 110 Huntington).
Make a left at the first light, onto Old Walt Whitman Road and the hotel
will be on your right hand side. From the Verrazanno Bridge, Staten
Island, New Jersey and Brooklyn: Belt Parkway East to the Cross Island
Parkway North to the Long Island Expressway (495) to Exit 49 South
(Route 110 Huntington). Make a left at the first light onto Old Walt
Whitman Road and the hotel will be on your right hand side. From Throgs
Neck Bridge, Whitestone Bridge, Upstate NY and New England: Cross Island
Parkway South to the Long Island Expressway (495) East to Exit 49 South
(Route 110 Huntington). Make a left at the first light onto Old Walt
Whitman Road and the hotel will be on the right hand side.
The last day to pre-register online was October 8, 2009.
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