Lexis Nexis On Trial - Advocacy Skills Law and Practice, 2nd Edition
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Product description
This practical guide helps you develop winning courtroom techniques and strategies. From the opening address to the final argument, it provides:
- authoritative solutions to potential legal and practical problems that may arise during trial
- useful examples of how to elicit evidence and damage witness credibility
- detailed instruction on how to conduct examinations-in-chief, cross-examinations and arguments
- methods of successfully preparing witnesses for trial.
This new edition features a number of new and reorganized chapters including new material on:
- The selection and presentation of a credible - and winning - theory of a case
- The selection, organization and use of documents at trial
- Demonstrative evidence - admissibility, laying the proper foundation, distinguishing between demonstrative evidence and demonstrative aids and the admissibility of videotapes, computer reconstruction and models
- Objections - when to object and when not to, timing and forms of objections
- Plus a major new section specifically devoted to expert witnesses - including who qualifies and the trial court's "gatekeeper" function, the subject matter of expert testimony, retaining and preparing expert witnesses and direct and cross-examination of experts
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Table of contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
PART I: THEORY OF THE CASE
Chapter 2: Theory of the Case and Related Themes
PART II: DEMONSTRATIVE EVIDENCE AND EXHIBITS
Chapter 3: The Organization and Use of Documents at Trial
Chapter 4: Demonstrative Evidence
PART III: OPENING ADDRESS
Chapter 5: The Law Governing Jury and Non-Jury Addresses
Chapter 6: The Plaintiff's Opening Address
Chapter 7: The Defendant's Opening Address
Chapter 8: Non-jury Openings
PART IV: DIRECT EXAMINATION
Chapter 9: Preparation of a Lay Witness to Give Evidence at Trial
Chapter 10: Examination-In-Chief: The Law
Chapter 11: Refreshing the Memory of a Witness
Chapter 12: The Conduct of a Direct Examination
PART V: CROSS EXAMINATION
Chapter 13: The Right to Cross-Examine
Chapter 14: The Rule in Browne v. Dunn
Chapter 15: The Boundaries of Cross-Examination
Chapter 16: Limitations on the Right to Cross-Examine
Chapter 17: The Collateral Facts Rule
Chapter 18: Cross-Examination of a Party's Own Witness: Hostility, Adversity and Prior Inconsistent Statements
Chapter 19: Cross-Examination of an Adversary's Witness Upon a Prior Inconsistent Statement
Chapter 20: Cross-Examination Upon Previous Convictions
Chapter 21: Obtaining Documents at Trial in Aid of Cross-Examination
Chapter 22: Executing a Winning Cross Examination
PART VI: EXPERT WITNESSES
Chapter 23: Law Regarding Expert Witnesses
Chapter 24: Preparation of an Expert Witness
Chapter 25: Expert Witnesses: The Qualifying Process
Chapter 26: The Direct Examination of an Expert Witness
Chapter 27: Cross-Examination of Experts
PART VII: RE-EXAMINATION
Chapter 28: Re-Examination: The Abused Art
Chapter 29: Objections
Chapter 30: The Law Governing Closing Addresses
Chapter 31: Closing Addresses
