Jury Selection Tips
- The Best Method for Keeping Track of Your Juror Strikes
- VIDEO: Two Tips for Better Jury Selection
- Give Jurors Time to Think During Jury Selection
- How to Capture Important Details During Jury Selection
- Where to Stand During Jury Selection
- Are Jurors Lying to Your During Jury Selection?
Opening Statement Tips
- Grabbing the Jury’s Attention During Opening Statement
- How to Add More Impact to Your Opening Statement
- How to Add More Details to Your Opening Statement
- Start Your Opening Statement by Punching a Juror in the Mouth!
- AUDIO: Are you Promising Too Much During Opening Statement
- VIDEO: How to Present an Opening Statement without Notes
Direct Examination Tips
- What to Do When Your Witness Forgets
- Repeating Testimony for Maximum Effect (without Drawing an ‘Asked and Answered’ Objection)
- How a Simple Checklist can Save Your Trial
- How to Make Sure Your Jurors and Witnesses are Speaking the Same Language
- The WORST Question You Can Ask in Direct Examination
- Preparing Your Witness for Direct Examination
- How to Involve Your Jurors in Direct Examination
- Don’t Destroy Your Witness’s Credibility During Direct Examination
- Using Loops to Highlight Important Testimony During Direct Examination
- AUDIO: Are You Ignoring Your Witness During Direct Examination?
- Stop Leading your Witnesses During Direct Examination!
- How to Effectively Present Written Transcripts
Cross-Examination Tips
- VIDEO: The Secret to Successful Cross-Examination
- How to Cross-Examine Your Client
- VIDEO: How to Impeach Witnesses With Prior Sworn Statements
- AUDIO: How to Impeach Witnesses With Prior Sworn Statements
- How to Avoid Asking ‘One Question too Many’
- The Danger of Taglines During Cross-Examination
- Impeach Witnesses by Creating an Effective Record at Depositions
Closing Argument Tips
- Using Repetition to Improve Closing Arguments
- The Power of Pausing for Opening Statement and Closing Arguments
- How to Help Jurors Remember Your Witnesses During Closing Argument
- Show, Don’t Tell, During Closing Argument
- Anticipating the Jury’s Questions About Inadmissible Evidence
- How to Collect Stories and Analogies for Closing Argument
- Do You Sound Like a Lawyer During Closing Argument?
D.U.I. Specific Tips
- One Thing. Just One Thing.
How to highlight “impairment of normal faculties”
through the direct examination of your arresting officer - Concession Based Cross Examination of the Defendant.
How to gain concessions from the defendant during
cross-examination in breath test refusal cases.
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