Advocacy

This title offers clear, concise descriptions and explanations of the strategies, tools, and techniques that skilled advocates use in conducting the most effective cross-examinations.

Also available in print: K2271 .H64 2015 LAW (Reserve).
This title is a part of the YOUNG ADVOCATES SERIES.
Maintaining a plainspoken style throughout, Examinations in Civil Trials presents a sophisticated and comprehensive approach to conducting examinations in court, and before administrative tribunals.

This handbook applies recent pronouncements of the courts to the involvement of experts in civil litigation. It presents practical tips and techniques for readers with respect to the participation of experts from initial retainer, instruction, and report, to preparing experts to testify, leading experts’ evidence at trial, and cross-examination.

In addition to providing "tried and true" tips for witness preparation, this text addresses significant developments in electronic discovery, the law of child witnesses and witnesses under a disability, and the law of conflicts of interest and privilege.