Mastering Trial Advocacy: Cases, Problems & Exercises provides the ultimate training package for students in a trial advocacy course. The most important rule in trial work comes down to a simple mantra: practice like you play. Accordingly, this text provides you with a range of problems and issues that are scalable and adaptable to advocates of every skill level. Whether the class focuses on introducing students to the world of advocacy, or serves as a deep dive into the nuances of persuasion, this problem book serves as an excellent resource for teaching evidentiary and procedural law and preparing students for whatever lies ahead in the courtroom.

Mastering Trial Advocacy is the consummate resource guide for law students and practitioners who seek to take their advocacy skills to the next level. The new edition includes deeper levels of instruction and illustrative analogies across all fundamental advocacy skills. By trial lawyers and for trial lawyers, this book prepares attorneys for trial. This book excels in helping advocates push themselves to the next level by providing the core components necessary for competency, creativity, and maximum persuasive power.

For use with the main text: Mastering Trial Advocacy. The problems in this book are built as stand-alone exercises. The entire case file is provided from which the facts and circumstances of individual assignments are drawn. They can serve as final trials in simulated trial advocacy courses.

This compilation of articles covers such topics as jury selection, cross examination of lay witnesses, demonstrative evidence, and closing arguments.

Trial Advocacy: Planning, Analysis, and Strategy conveys a clear understanding of the trial process, how lawyers think, and the strategies and techniques of trial persuasion. Updated throughout, the timely Third Edition provides checklists in each chapter as a useful teaching aid. Topical coverage has been expanded to include discussion of Internet interference during trial and the use of focus groups, trial simulations, and technology in trial preparation. A leader in the field, Trial Advocacy offers: a thorough and lucid overview of the trial process balanced coverage of practice and theory informative discussion of how trial lawyers think and act how litigators use state-of-the-art technology trial persuasion strategies and techniques a thoughtful look at the ethical and legal boundaries of trial advocacy More of what's new in the Third Edition: new coverage of bench-trial advocacy a comprehensive treatment of courtroom evidence how to satisfy the judge's expectations of counsel