NITA Publications

31 Ways to Winning Advocacy DVD

This DVD set uses recorded trial clips, live demonstrations, audience participation and Frank Rothschild's own remarkable lecture style to create a most enjoyable and memorable learning experience. This presentation is set in a real courtroom, before an audience of trial lawyers seated in the jury box. Five DVDs (4:43:00)

• >> TABLE OF CONTENTS
  Table of Contents
  
  FACTS OF THE CASE
  
  DIAGRAM
  
  Style and Attitude
  
  1. THE WORDS WE USE
  2. THE DANCES WE DO
  3. OUR BIGGEST CRUTCH
  4. FEELINGS
  5. DEALING WITH BAD STUFF
  6. ALWAYS HAVE A GET DOWN
  7. PLANNING FOR THE UNEXPECTED
  8. FUSSING AND FIGHTING
  
  Jury Selection
  
  9. I DON'T MEAN TO PRY, BUT
  10. DON'T DUCK, DIG
  11. NOW, OF COURSE, YOU UNDERSTAND
  
  Opening Statement
  
  12. SEND A CLEAR MESSAGE
  13. BORRR-ING
  14. WOULD RONALD MCDONALD BUY A WHOPPER?
  15. SAVE THE ARGUMENT FOR CLOSING
  
  Direct Examination and Exhibits
  
  16. LOOK WHO'S TALKING
  17. THE PUSH-BUTTON DIRECT EXAM
  18. HOW ABOUT HELPING OUR WITNESS
  19. REFRESHING OR IMPEACHING
  20. THE DRILL WITH EXHIBITS
  21. OK, IT'S ADMITTED. NOW WHAT?
  
  Cross-Examination and Impeachment
  
  22. HONEY OR VINEGAR
  23. LET'S GO FISHING AND SEE WHAT WE CATCH
  24. MAKE A HOORAH
  25. WHO'S IN CONTROL?
  26. THE MINDSET OF THE IMPEACHER
  27. TICKY-TACK IMPEACHMENTS
  28. THE DRILL WITH IMPEACHMENT
  29. AHA!, WELL!, SO, WHICH IS IT?
  
  October 21, 2010

• >> AUTHOR
  
  
  • Frank D. Rothschild
    
    
    • Frank D. Rothschild has taught and lectured on trial advocacy since the 1970s. During that time he has been a NITA team leader and faculty member in hundreds of basic and advanced trial, deposition and technology courses. He has designed and been faculty at innumerable in-house programs for firms, insurance companies, public defender and prosecution agencies. In 1996 he received the Hon. Prentice H. Marshall Faculty Award from NITA. Mr. Rothschild graduated from Georgetown University Law Center and then clerked at the U.S. Court of Claims in Washington, D.C. He then started a private general practice in Marin County, California, before becoming a public defender in Juneau, Alaska. He became a civil litigator for Perkins Coi in its Anchorage, Alaska office, followed by becoming a felony prosecutor for the Anchorage District Attorney's office. In 1985 he moved to Hawaii, where he has lived since. Besides the many trial training programs he teaches each year, Mr. Rothschild also serves as an arbitrator/mediator for the American Arbitration Association and Dispute Prevention and Resolution, based in Honolulu. He has also served as a per diem judge on Kauai since 1994, and is a member of the appellate mediation panel for the Hawaii Judiciary's Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution. Mr. Rothschild has authored or co-authored over twenty publications including PowerPoint 2003: 50 Great Tips for Better, Easier Slides (NITA 2005); PowerPoint 2002 for Litigators (NITA 2002) and a chapter titled "Top Ten Screwups in Direct and Cross Examination of Experts" in 2000 Wiley Expert Witness Update (Aspen Law and Business 1999).