Problems in Trial Advocacy, 2023 Edition


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Looking to add practical skills to your class or training? Problems in Trial Advocacy is the ideal resource. Updated for the 2023 Edition, Problems in Trial Advocacy is the premier volume for realistic and accessible courtroom simulations. With problems based on real trials, both civil and criminal, this series of vignettes guides the reader through opening statements, direct and cross-examination of lay and expert witnesses, exhibit introduction, witness impeachment, and closing arguments. These hands-on exercises include a variety of electronic exhibits, providing practice for the contemporary courtroom experience. Problems in Trial Advocacy lets students practice their courtroom skills without memorizing a full case file of facts. Problems in Trial Advocacy is the advocacy standard, updated with modern challenges to advocacy skills. Professors and students will benefit from: Brief fact patterns that can be used for preparing opening and closing statements, direct examination, cross-examination, and more. Multiple types of exhibits encourage students to learn the rules of evidence and practice entering assorted exhibits into evidence before a judge. Easy to use fact patterns that can be adopted for multiple class types.










Problems in Trial Advocacy


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Materials in Trial Advocacy


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A leading text in trial advocacy for its authority and effectiveness, Materials in Trial Advocacy uses actual cases and Trial Files to engage students in the whole process of litigation. Each chapter contains both civil and criminal problems presented at graduating levels of complexity. The Seventh Edition welcomes new co-author Steve Easton, an accomplished litigator and award-winning trial advocacy teacher. Several new Trial Files and problems have been added to the text, while the Trial Files from Chapter 9 have been located to a CD to reduce the size and weight of the book itself. Hallmark features of Materials in Trial Advocacy: user-friendly organization 1. problems organized in chronological order, from voir dire to final argument 2. self-contained problems of manageable size 3. complete trials raising common evidentiary and trial strategy issues accessible and comprehensive coverage problems and trials that raise both simple and complex issues Updated in every detail, the revised Seventh Edition presents: a new Trial File containing allegations of driving while intoxicated and reckless driving a second new Trial File arising out of a shoving incident, with video of the actual incident ,which can be tried in any of three ways 1. as a criminal battery trial 2. as a civil damages case by one combatant against the other 3. as a civil rights suit against the police officer who pepper-sprayed one of the combatants two contemporary new problems regarding the authentication of documents that were allegedly produced by computers




Problems in Trial Advocacy


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Problems in Trial Advocacy


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Problems in Trial Advocacy, 2021 Edition, is the premier volume for realistic and accessible courtroom simulations. Many of the problems are based on real trials, both civil and criminal. A series of vignettes lead the reader through opening statements, direct and cross-examination of lay and expert witnesses, exhibit introduction, witness impeachment, and closing arguments. These hands-on exercises include variety of electronic exhibits, providing practice for the changing courtroom experience. Problems in Trial Advocacy lets students practice their courtroom skills without memorizing a full case file of facts. The advocacy standard, updated with modern challenges to advocacy skills.




Problems in Trial Advocacy


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