Product Description: Polish vs. American Courtroom Discourse brings together the fields of discourse analysis and socio-legal studies to identify, illustrate and explain the cross-cultural similarities and disparities between the inquisitorial and adversarial procedures of witness examination in criminal trials...read more

Product Description: This book discusses the most frequently used rules of evidence: those that govern the form of the question. It includes the following features: • Coverage of the rules for the form of question for trials, depositions, and hearings • For each important rule, book provides explanatory text, case law, illustrative transcripts and practical exercises • Subjects covered include: leading questions, narrative questions, “asked and answered” “argumentative” and “badgering,” vague and confusing standards, ambiguity, compound questions, assuming facts not in evidence, “beyond the scope,” form of answers, and motions to strike...read more

Product Description: Written by an experienced Texas trial attorney, The Art of Witness Preparation provides guidance on preparing witnesses to testify effectively and persuasively at civil trials, hearings, and depositions. Unlike most literature devoted to trial advocacy, this book focuses on the witnesses' performance in the courtroom instead of the lawyer's, addressing an often neglected angle for the civil trial attorney...read more