Trials: Tips, Tactics & Tales
6 CLE / 1 E - Wednesday, December 15; 9:00 A.M. - 4:30 P.M.
LIVE IN-PERSON SEMINAR - ICLEF Conference Facility, Indianapolis
LIVE INDIVIDUAL WEBCAST - From your home or office
You've likely seen dozens of trial advocacy instructors. Many were probably very good - some even great. But, you haven't seen anybody like Mike Cash.
Cash's timing and gift for delivery were developed in his prior life as a stand-up comic and were honed in the courtroom. They are evident and important aspects of his presentations at trial and integral to his skill as a seminar leader. Cash presents tips and tactics illustrated with tales from actual trials where they were successfully (and sometimes unsuccessfully) employed. Trials is a fast-paced program rich with demonstration and worth every second of your attention.
See, Discover and Enjoy:
Pre-trial tips that will allow you to shut down your opponent at trial
High impact openings
Illuminating direct examinations of any kind of witness that will hold a jury's attention
Decisive cross-examinations which will unravel a witness
How to create and use show-stopping demonstrative evidence, and...
Closing arguments that move the jury to action
Don't expect the trite or the familiar from Mike Cash or this intense, creative program. He respects your experience and celebrates your already proven abilities as a trial lawyer. Cash's presentation is designed specifically to take you to the next level of success in the courtroom.
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TOPICS:
The Trial Lawyer — A Dying Breed?
Pre-Trial - What To Do Before the Trial Starts
• Supplies
• Preparation
• “The little things”
Motion in Limine
• What Matters
• What Doesn’t
• Using Your Discovery as a Guide
Voir Dire
Keep Your Friends Close — Get Rid of Your Enemies
• Questions Designed to Persuade
• Questions Designed to Eliminate
Opening Statement
You Get 10 Seconds — Don’t Waste Them
• Theming
• Delivery
• Persuasion
Direct Examination
Lights … Camera … Action!
• Witnesses Preparation
• Conducting an Effective Direct
− Lay Witnesses
− Party/Non Party
− Reluctant Witnesses
− Techniques that Reinforce
− Timelines
− Easy to do — Hard to do Well!
− Experts — A Special Breed
Cross-Examination
Impeachment — How To and NOT To The Keys to a Powerful Impeachment
• Hard Cross vs. Soft Cross
• Objectives and Tactics
• Control
• Experts
Battling the Sharks
• How to Attack the Expert Without Becoming the Prey
• How to Spot (and Avoid) Danger
Demonstrative Evidence Educate and Entertain
• High Tech vs. Low Tech
• The Best I Ever Saw!
• Control the Technology
• Big Hat, No Cattle?
Tidbits: Tips and Tactics That Can Save You at Trial
Closing Argument - “It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over”
• Substance with Sizzle
• Keys to a Powerful Closing
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FACULTY:
Tina M. Bell, Co-Chair
Christie Farrell Lee & Bell, P.C., Indianapolis, IN
Mark A. Metzger, Co-Chair
Metzger Rosta LLP, Noblesville, IN
Michael P. Cash, Featured Presenter
Liskow & Lewis, Houston, TX
James J. Bell
Paganelli Law Group LLC, Indianapolis, IN
F. Anthony Paganelli
Paganelli Law Group LLC, Indianapolis, IN
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Trials: Tips, Tactics & Tales
6 CLE / 1 E - Wednesday, December 15; 9:00 A.M. - 4:30 P.M.
LIVE IN-PERSON SEMINAR - ICLEF Conference Facility, Indianapolis
LIVE INDIVIDUAL WEBCAST - From your home or office
ICLEF • Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum, Indianapolis, IN • Indiana's Premier CLE Provider