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NYSBA | Keys to Effective Trial Advocacy (Fall 2006) = 15

Keys to Effective Trial Advocacy (Fall 2006)

Non-Member Price:	$235.00
Member Price:	$150.00

Stock Status:	In Stock
Product Code:	80688

Product Description

Live Program Held: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - New York City

This full-day program will cover all the major parts of the trial. It is a course that appeals to both younger lawyers and more experienced practitioners, since it presents a number of innovative and challenging techniques in every topic.

The course includes: Opening Statements, Direct Examination, Cross-Examination, Expert Witnesses, and Final Argument.

Every subject is loaded with practical, how-to-do-it information that will make you a better lawyer.
• Watch McElhaney demonstrate how the nation's best trial lawyers use opening statements to make the jury want them to win.
• Catch the simple direct examination techniques that make the jury become "Eyewitnesses to your facts."
• Learn how The Language of Cross-Examination can give you amazing control over witnesses.
• See how to make your expert be the guide the jury wants to follow.
• Catch the principles that make final argument inspiring.

The New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Continuing Legal Education has been certified by the New York State Continuing Legal Education Board as an Accredited Provider of continuing legal education in the State of New York.

Agenda

A. Opening Statement
• Be the Lawyer the Judge and Jury Trust
• Making the Jury Want You to Win
• Telling the Winning Story
• Making Memories

B. Direct Examination
• The Paragraph Method of Direct
• How to Guide Your Witness Without Leading
• Making the Jury "See" Your Facts
• It's Happening Now

C. Cross-Examination
• The Language of Cross-Examination
• You are the Real Witness On Cross-Examination
• The Secrets of Witness Control
• Effective Impeachment

D. Expert Witnesses
• Five Ways to Use an Expert
• Making Expert Testimony Come Alive
• Make Your Expert the Hero of the Breakfast Table
• Nine Ways to Cross-Examine an Expert

E. Final Argument
• Solving Problems With Final Argument
• Taking Advantage of the Sense of Injustice
• Using Analogies
• A Treasury of Winning Arguments

About Jim McElhaney

The Continuing Legal Education Committee of the New York State Bar Association is proud to bring you the most widely read author on trial techniques in the U.S. Every month he talks to nearly half a million lawyers and judges about evidence, procedure and trial techniques in his award-winning column, “Litigation,” in the American Bar Association Journal. He also writes the popular “Trial Notebook” column in Litigation Journal, and he is the author of three widely acclaimed books: Effective Litigation (West Publishing Co.), McElhaney’s Trial Notebook (ABA, 4th Ed. 2005), and McElhaney’s Litigation (ABA). Jim McElhaney is the Joseph C. Hutcheson Distinguished Lecturer in Trial Tactics, South Texas College of Law, Houston, Texas, and the Baker & Hostetler Distinguished Scholar in Trial Practice, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Cleveland, Ohio.

Jim has given nearly 1,000 seminars, speeches and workshops on evidence, procedure and trial practice, many of which were for the New York State Bar Association.

LEADING NEW YORK LAWYERS SAY:

“Mr. McElhaney is engaging and kept my attention.”
“Mr. McElhaney is a superb speaker (a lost art).”
“He is the best and most interesting I have heard in years.”
“Speaker was animated, exciting. Told excellent stories. Kept us entertained as we LEARNED.”
“Right on the money.”
“Fantastic presentation.”
“This program is the best I’ve attended and due to mandatory CLE in other states, I’ve had to attend lots of them. Congratulations on picking a winner!”
“A great CLE course! The best I have attended.”
“Best CLE lecture ever!”
“This is by far the most helpful (and entertaining) of the many CLE courses I’ve attended since being admitted”
“Absolutely terrific!”

7.0 MCLE credits

Each additional person who uses the tapes for MCLE credit must purchase a copy of the "MCLE coursebook."