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Compendium of Trial Advocacy Drills

Compendium of Trial Advocacy Drills

Stein and Rubinowitz discuss the concept that many of us learn intellectually, others of us learn existentially, and then there are the rest of us that learn by doing. In Compendium of Trial Advocacy Drills, the student will practice the skills taught verbally in the classroom through a hands-on approach.


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ISBN: 9781556819612

2006
 
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    Stein and Rubinowitz discuss the concept that many of us learn intellectually, others of us learn existentially, and then there are the rest of us that learn by doing. In Compendium of Trial Advocacy Drills, the student will practice the skills taught verbally in the classroom through a hands-on approach.

    All of the drills are designed to bring a unique energy to the classroom. Set-up as mini-exercises, each drill narrows in on specific trial techniques that students are eager to practice.

    CONTENTS
    Acknowledgments
    I. Introduction
    II. When Drills Are Appropriate
    III. How Drills Work
    IV. The Instructor's Rules for Drills
    V. Drills
    1. Volume, Pace, and Gestures--The Emphasis Drill
    2. Direct Examination--The Who, What, Where, When Drill
    3. Direct Examination--The Double Direct/Looping Drill
    4. Direct and/or Cross-Examination--The-One-Fact-per-Question Drill
    5. Direct Examination--The Picture-Drawing Drill
    6. Cross-Examination--The Freeze-Frame Technique
    7. Cross-Examination--The Eraser Drill
    8. Cross-Examination--The Using-Operative-Words Drill
    9. Object Examination--The Schizophrenia Drill
    10. Cross-/Direct Examination--The Tennis Ball Drill
    11. Cross-/Direct Examination--The Ultimate Question Drill
    12. Advanced Direct/Cross-Examination--The Thinking-on-Your-Feet Drill
    13. Evidentiary Foundations/Direct Examination--The Conga Line Drill
    14. Chain of Custody--The Visualization Drill
    15. Objections--The No-Speeches Drill
    16. Impeachment--The Confirm, Clue, Credit, Confront Drill
    17. Opening Statement--The Using-Operative-Legal-Terms Drill
    18. Closing Argument--The Relating-Cross-Exam-Questions-to-Closing Drill
    19. Closing Argument/Damages--The Money-Request Drill
    20. Closing Argument--The 3" x 5" Index Card Drill
    21. Closing Argument/Opening Statement--The One-Minute Drill
    22. Closing Argument--The Argument v. Reciting Facts Drill
    23. Closing Argument
    VI. Conclusion

     

    Robert Stein


    Robert Stein has been thinking about trial advocacy since his admission to the bar in 1971, when "right out of the box" and with no formal training, he represented indigent criminal defendants in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and ended up with a sub-specialty defending alleged bank robbers. His first formal advocacy training came in 1973 when he attended the second session of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. In 1976, he began teaching trial advocacy as an adjunct professor at the Franklin Pierce Law Center. In 1983, he was asked to teach at the Northeast Regional Session of that National Institute for Trial Advocacy located in New York. The next year he was asked to be a team leader at the Northeast Regional and has been a team leader there ever since. Mr. Stein has also served as a team leader at NITA's Southeast Regional Program in North Carolina, the Master Advocates Program in New York, and the NITA's National Session. He has taught and lectured at Hofstra, Harvard, Widener, Cardozo, and Emory law schools and has presented to a variety of law firms and other organizations. His practice includes both civil and criminal litigation, representation in state and federal courts, as well as on the appellate level. Recently, Mr. Stein returned from a year in The Hague, Netherlands, where he participated in the defense of an individual brought before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. He graduated magna cum laude from Washington and Jefferson College, and from the University of Michigan Law School. He is the founding member of the law firm of Robert A. Stein and Associates, PLLC, located in Concord, New Hampshire. Mr. Stein has been listed as a Who's Who in American Lawyers and Best Lawyers in America for over ten years in multiple categories, is a fellow of the American Board of Trial Advocates, and served as a member of the board of governors of the International Society of Barristers. He is a fellow of the American Board of Trial Advocates and the International Society of Barristers (ISOB). He served on the ISOB Board of Governors from 1999 to 2005. He currently serves on the ISOB Foundation Board of Governors.

    Ben B. Rubinowitz


    Ben B. Rubinowitz is a partner in the New York City law firm of Gair, Gair, Conason, Steigman, Mackauff, Bloom and Rubinowitz. Prior to that, he worked as a prosecutor and later as a trial lawyer in personal injury cases. Over the years he has produced nineteen verdicts and seventy-one settlements in excess of one million dollars (often well over that figure) from cases involving personal injury, medical malpractice, civil rights violations and products liability. He also has successfully argued appellate cases the Appellate Division and the New York State Court of Appeals. Eight times New York Magazine has named him one of the "Best Lawyers in New York" as well as having been named one of "The Best Lawyers in America." He has served as an instructor, lecturer or professor at Harvard, Emory, Fordham, St. John's, Pace and Cardoza law schools and has conducted more than a hundred continuing education programs throughout the country. He is very active in The National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) and has served as one of their national and regional team leaders, as well as being elected a national board member of the organization. Mr. Rubinowitz's experience and legal acumen is also sought out outside of the courtroom. He has appeared as a legal expert on Court TV and co-authors a regular column in the NY Law Journal on the subject of trial advocacy.

     

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