Trial Advocacy: Planning, Analysis, and Strategy
Marilyn Berger, John Mitchell, and Ronald Clark
Trial Advocacy: Planning, Analysis, and Strategy reflects the way criminal and civil pretrial advocacy is successfully practiced in federal and state litigation. The distinguished author team offers both a conceptual and practical foundation for today’s pretrial advocates. Checklists of skills, techniques, standards and ethics appear in each chapter. 79 assignments are designed for student role-play performances. It includes:
- Chapters covering all pretrial activities from forging an attorney-client relationship to drafting and arguing pretrial motions
- Comprehensive text for an introduction to law practice skills course
- Professional responsibility emphasized throughout the text
- Case files for civil wrongful death and criminal homicide cases
- Seventy-nine assignments for student role-play skills performances, such as drafting pleadings and taking a deposition.
- Checklists of skills, techniques, standard and ethics in each chapter
- Videos and supplementary material
- Supplementary material including: exemplary documents (such as fee agreements, a spoliation letter) and articles on pretrial topics along with case files and performance assignments
- Cultural competency for working effectively in cross-cultural situations during pretrial preparation and litigation
- Strategies for working collaboratively and resolving conflicts
- Demand letters and mediation briefs
- Revamped and enhanced pleadings chapter, including examples of cutting-edge complaints and answers
- Rules changes are incorporated into this 5th Edition, including recently amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Federal Rules of Evidence
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