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Trial Technique & Evidence

Trial Technique & Evidence

Evidence and Trial Advocacy are often taught as if in practice; the topics are not related. The original edition of this title pioneered the concept that instruction on trial technique and evidence rules in the same volume is an effective way to teach either an evidence or trial advocacy course. This combination provides students with the foundation for becoming skilled trial advocates within the boundaries of the rules of evidence.


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Publisher :NITA
Format: Fourth Edition, Perfect Bound, 930 pgs. , BOOK

ISBN: 9781601562456

2013
 
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    Evidence and Trial Advocacy are often taught as if in practice; the topics are not related. The original edition of this title pioneered the concept that instruction on trial technique and evidence rules in the same volume is an effective way to teach either an evidence or trial advocacy course. This combination provides students with the foundation for becoming skilled trial advocates within the boundaries of the rules of evidence.

    Trial Technique and Evidence explains the purpose and application of each evidence rule. The practical methods of presenting evidence are balanced against the requirements of the rules. Indeed, many evidence rules are "practice" rules, either not covered in the formal rules of evidence or not addressed in detail. The basis for introducing demonstrative exhibits, for example, is not included in the federal rules, and impeaching witnesses in trial requires knowledge of practical technique. Trial Technique and Evidence allows a professor to incorporate practical requirements with evidence theory. The text also includes practical steps for compliance with the rules, with examples to facilitate the student's understanding, and addresses recent developments such as:

    •  Jury persuasion
    •  Application of rules to electronic evidence
    •  Trends in applying the Daubert factors for assessing expert testimony
    •  Amendments to the Federal Rules of Evidence

    But this eminently practical book is not just for law students--practitioners will find a wealth of information with which to brush up their skills and gain new insight into their practice.

    Table of Contents

    Chapter One          Trial Preparation
    Chapter Two          Selecting the Jury
    Chapter Three       Opening Statement
    Chapter Four         Basic Evidence and Procedure
    Chapter Five          Relevance Rules
    Chapter Six            Hearsay
    Chapter Seven       Direct Examination
    Chapter Eight        Exhibits
    Chapter Nine         Cross-Examination and Impeachment
    Chapter Ten           Expert Witness
    Chapter Eleven      Privileges
    Chapter Twelve     Closing Argument
    Appendix A            Danielson v. ComputerCentre Associates
    Appendix B            Paves v. Johnstone
    Appendix C            Federal Rules of Evidence

     

    Michael R. Fontham


    Michael R. Fontham engages in a civil litigation practice as a partner in the New Orleans law firm of Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann L.L.C. His practice involves commercial disputes before state and federal courts and regulatory agencies, and includes contract disputes, utility rate matters, public interest cases and varied commercial cases. Fontham is a graduate of the University of Virginia Law School. He teaches evidence as an adjunct professor at the Tulane University Law School and at the LSU Law Center. He has been an instructor in the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA) at the University of Virginia since 1983. He lectures frequently on trial advocacy, appellate advocacy and evidence, has taught advocacy skills courses at the Law School at Loyola University, and has taught in the Louisiana Judicial College. Fontham is the author of Trial Technique and Evidence (Third Edition, 2008), a text on trial advocacy and evidence. He also authored Persuasive Written and Oral Advocacy: In Trial and Appellate Courts (2002) (with Michael Vitiello and David W. Miller), a treatise on brief writing, oral argument and appellate practice that expands and updates his Written and Oral Advocacy (1985). He has authored and delivered lectures on trial and appellate advocacy, evidence, utility regulation, and other issues.

     

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