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Issue Preservation at Trial: Don't Lose Your Chance to Challenge

Content Provider
American Law Institute CLE
Product
CLE
Run Time
61 Minutes
Recording Date
10/31/2023
Presenter(s)
Robert M. Palumbos
Learning Method
On-Demand Training
Practice Area
Litigation
Persona
CLE OnDemand

Price $219.00

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Description

Losing a trial can be devastating to your client. The blow can be compounded if there is no recourse for appeal to reverse an adverse decision. As counsel to your client, properly preserving issues and arguments during a trial can make the difference between reversing a bad result or having to live with it.
In the event that a ruling does not favor your client, you need to capitalize on every opportunity during the trial to preserve issues or arguments for appeal.
The rules for preserving issues can be strict. Failure to appropriately preserve an issue for review by an appellate court can be disastrous, resulting in an appellate court not addressing the merits of the otherwise compelling argument on appeal. Join us for this important CLE program that focuses on how a trial practitioner may preserve, or fail to preserve, a sufficient record for review by an appellate court.
Topics to be covered include:
- Addressing issues in a pretrial order
- What is required to preserve an objection at trial?
- Procedures for timely objections regarding:
> Evidentiary objections
> Jury instructions
> Verdict forms
> Inconsistent verdicts
- When to object, when not to object, and when to press the issue
- How to get a definitive ruling on an objection

Literature

State Status Total Credits Type Of Credit Approved Thru
AlabamaApproved1.00General12/31/2025
AlaskaApproved1.00GeneralOn-going
ArizonaApproved1.00GeneralOn-going
ArkansasApproved1.00GeneralOn-going
CaliforniaApproved1.00Participatory10/31/2028
ColoradoApproved1.00General12/31/2025
ConnecticutApproved1.00GeneralOn-going
DelawareApproved1.00General10/30/2025
FloridaApproved1.00General or Technology07/31/2025
HawaiiApproved1.00General10/31/2025
IdahoApproved1.00General10/31/2028
IllinoisApproved1.00General12/05/2025
MaineApproved1.00General02/15/2026
MinnesotaApproved1.00General12/27/2025
MissouriApproved1.20GeneralOn-going
MontanaApproved1.00General10/13/2026
NebraskaApproved1.01General10/31/2025
NevadaApproved1.00General12/31/2027
New HampshireApproved1.00General10/30/2026
New JerseyApproved1.00GeneralOn-going
New MexicoApproved1.00General10/30/2028
New YorkApproved1.00SkillsOn-going
North DakotaApproved1.00General10/31/2026
OregonApproved1.00General10/30/2026
PennsylvaniaApproved1.00General12/07/2025
Rhode IslandApproved1.00General06/30/2025
UtahPending State Response0.00
VermontApproved1.00GeneralOn-going
WashingtonApproved1.00General10/30/2028
West VirginiaApproved1.22GeneralOn-going
WisconsinApproved1.00GeneralOn-going

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