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Theater tips and strategies for jury trials /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ball, David (David A.), 1942-
Corporate Author: National Institute for Trial Advocacy (U.S.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Louisville, Colo. : National Institute for Trial Advocacy, [2003]
Edition:3rd ed.
Subjects:
Trial practice > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Part one: methods
  • The leading character: you
  • Your cast rehearsals: the ten commandments of witness preparation
  • Your audience: jury voir dire
  • Your audience: jurors during trial
  • Your props: demonstrative and real evidence
  • Your audience coups: visceral communication
  • Your plot: telling your story
  • Your camera angle: point of view
  • Testimony
  • Closing
  • CLE courses and law school
  • And in conclusion, ladies and gentlemen
  • Part two: applications
  • Working with co-counsel
  • Humanizing non-human cases
  • Theme
  • Focus groups, mock trials
  • The awkwardness of voir dire
  • Conducting voir dire
  • Peremptory & cause challenges: making choices
  • Truth
  • Reading the jurors
  • Paralegals in court
  • The care and feeding of experts
  • Courtroom technology: tip & caveats.