This book provides trial lawyers with a process they can use to simplify their cases by filtering out what is distracting or unimportant.

Product Description: Based on the author’s more than 35 years of experience as a successful expert witness, this revised and expanded edition of Expert Witnessing and Scientific Testimony: A Guidebook demonstrates how to properly present scientific, criminal, and forensic testimony and survive the onslaught of cross-examination in court...read more

Product Description: This book builds upon the success of earlier editions, providing a structure that is scalable regardless of the type of case an advocate finds themselves confronting. The focus on case analysis remains a strong point in the 3rd edition, with additional online resources included to truly immerse the student in every fundamental advocacy skill discussed in the text...read more

Product Description: This brand new fourth edition of Forensic Aspects of Driver Perception and Response contains invaluable new information you need to know about driver perception and response and related human factors and design issues. This text contains the most current information available in the area of driver perception and perception-response time...read more

Product Description: This comprehensive guide not only analyzes every applicable rule of civil procedure, but also gives you practice-proven techniques for evaluating what motions will work most effectively in each of your cases. From early pretrial motions dealing with complaints and jurisdiction to appellate motion practice for both victor and vanquished, Motion Practice, Sixth Edition shows you both what is permissible and what is advisable in such aspects of motion practice as: Formal requirements Strategic uses Use of supporting documents Effective advocacy Persuasive oral argument Ethical issues The authors include a table of deadlines affecting motions, along with sample forms and illustrative trial examples...read more

Product Description: This widely adopted book has become the preeminent advocacy text for law students and lawyers. The chapters comprehensively explore planning and preparation, procedures and motions, evidence and objections, direct and cross examinations, the use of exhibits, opening statements and summation, jury selection, and verdicts and appeals...read more

Product Description: This widely adopted book has become the preeminent advocacy text for law students and lawyers. The chapters comprehensively explore planning and preparation, procedures and motions, evidence and objections, direct and cross examinations, the use of exhibits, opening statements and summation, jury selection, and verdicts and appeals...read more

Product Description: Hiring a lawyer can be costly and unnecessary in certain circumstances as you deal with courts, claims and disputes. Lawyer Devlin Farmer has experience across North America in guiding clients to the most affordable, effective solutions, and he shares his advice in this book on how to represent your interests in the civil courts with the greatest chances of success...read more

Product Description: This completely revised and updated Fourth edition will improve your witness preparation skills. This new edition includes a new focus on the gaps perceived between the attorney and witnesses, and how to effectively bridge those gaps...read more

Product Description: Dueling Discourses offers qualitative and quantitative analyses of the linguistic and discursive forms utilized by opposing lawyers in their closing arguments during criminal trials. Laura Felton Rosulek analyzes how these arguments construct contrasting representations of the same realities, applying the insights and methodologies of critical discourse analysis and systemic functional linguistics to a corpus of arguments from seventeen trials...read more

Product Description: Understanding the Use of Social Media in Litigation provides an authoritative, insider's perspective on the latest trends involving the role of social media for both the prosecution and defense. Featuring partners from some of the nation's leading law firms, this book guides the reader through crucial topics, such as discovery standards, privilege or privacy claims, and authentication...read more

Product Description: Social media hasn't just changed society―it's changing the way in which criminal law is prosecuted, defended, and adjudicated. This fascinating book explains how.• Examines the criminal justice system from multiple perspectives in order to give fair attention to the successful uses of social media as well as the abuses• Comprehensively covers current issues that have broad, long-term repercussions for the criminal justice system• Provides a convenient overview of all the information related to social media and criminal law in one place• Cites relevant cases and statute...read more

Product Description: Trial Advocacy: Planning, Analysis, and Strategy conveys a clear understanding of the trial process, how lawyers think, and the strategies and techniques of trial persuasion. Updated throughout, the timely Third Edition provides checklists in each chapter as a useful teaching aid...read more

Product Description: This concise, practical text focuses on the art and craft of persuasive oral argument. It explores why people are ill-at-ease with public speaking and addresses why the problem exists, why it matters, and what to do about it. The authors, teachers of oral advocacy who have broad trial experience as well, maintain that everyone can master basic oral advocacy, and they skillfully and in an engaging style guide the reader through the steps necessary to do so...read more

Product Description: This massive book, in over 1,000 pages and 39 chapters, is a complete how-to guidebook for handling juvenile court cases from beginning to end. Rather than ignoring those aspects of juvenile proceedings that mirror adult criminal practices, it examines them at every stage...read more