NEWLY RELEASED

Trial advocacy: planning, analysis, and strategy, 2nd edition plus new companion book

Trial Advocacy: Planning, Analysis and Strategy, Second Edition is completely revised and updated reflecting today’s trial practice. Every chapter includes practical and conceptual instructions with realistic illustrations. Trial planning techniques and strategies using case theory and theme are explained in depth. Trial Advocacy presents premier trial persuasion principles and state-of-the-art technology used by practicing lawyers. It provides guidance for every phase from trial preparation to closing argument. The text together with an accompanying DVD showing model trial demonstrations of all aspects of trial from jury selection to closing argument, make this this an outstanding primer for law students and will serve as an indispensable resource for a continuing trial practice. A companion book contains Assignments and a CD with the case files.

This newly revised edition includes:

  • Exhibits and the visual trial: developing and using demonstrative evidence
  • DVD with model trial performances by experienced trial lawyers, video of the crime scene, computer animations and software slideshows for trial lawyers
  • Ethical boundaries based on the ABA Model Rules, included in assignments and text
  • Cross-examination: Methodology for constructing persuasive examination
  • Trial motions: Sample motion documents
  • Jury selection: strategies for developing rapport and analyzing prospective jurors
  • This website for faculty and students: digital downloads, faculty teaching tools, tutorials and links to software
  • Jury instructions: models for writing and using jury instructions
  • Case theory and theme development with illustrations

Summary of Contents

  • Chapter 1. Today’s Trial Lawyer 
  • Chapter 2. Trial Persuasion Principles 
  • Chapter 3. Case Theory & Theme Development 
  • Chapter 4. Trial Motion Advocacy 
  • Chapter 5. Making and Meeting Objections 
  • Chapter 6. Jury Selection: The Two-Way Exchange 
  • Chapter 7. Opening Statement Storytelling 
  • Chapter 8. Exhibits and the Visual Trial 
  • Chapter 9. Direct-Examination: Building the Case 
  • Chapter 10. Cross-Examination: Concession-Seeking 
  • Chapter 11. Experts: Yours and Theirs 
  • Chapter 12. Jury Instructions: The Jury’s Law 
  • Chapter 13. Closing Argument: The Art of Argument

Trial Advocacy: Assignments and Case Files is a completely new and companion book to Trial Advocacy: Planning, Analysis and Strategy.  This Assignments book provides the experience of thinking and acting as a lawyer with 84 role-play assignments in both a wrongful death and a criminal homicide case.  The Assignments book cross-references directly to Trial Advocacy: Planning, Analysis and Strategy.  A CD in the back cover of the Assignments book includes civil and criminal case files.  A Teacher's Manual comes with the Assignments book and includes a CD with an Actors' Guide (Witness Materials for role-playing assignments).

This Completely New Assignments book Includes:

  • Case
  • Management
  • Role-Play Assignments covering a criminal homicide and a wrongful death suit
  • Checklists for the Assignments
  • CD with Case Files