Trial Advocacy

Aspen Publishers proudly offers the new edition of Trial Advocacy by Berger, Mitchell, and Clark. Included with this text is the ground-breaking Trial Demonstration Movie "Freck Point Trial." In addition to being able to READ the text and SEE the movie, students and practicing lawyers can DO the work of a trial attorney with the role-play assignments in Trial Advocacy: Assignments and Case Files . READ IT - Completely New Edition of the Premier Trial Advocacy Book If you are a professor or trial advocacy trainer and you choose to adopt Trial Advocacy, Second Edition, you and your class will receive FREE copies* of true crime writer Ann Rule's book "A Rose for Her Grave" (which inspired the Freck Point Trial movie.) *While supplies last Trial Advocacy: Planning, Analysis, and Strategy, Second Edition is completely revised to reflect today's criminal and civil trial practice. This book covers: The fundamentals of trial practice up to and through advanced trial strategies Trial persuasion principles Trial preparation, planning and strategies Cross-examination: methodology for constructing a persuasive examination Trial Motions: drafting and arguing, includes a model motion Jury Selection: effective techniques and how to analyze prospective jurors Jury Instructions: models for writing and using jury instructions Case Theory and Theme development Illustrations: homicide, white collar crime, products liability and personal injury State-of-the-art technology for courtroom evidence Courtroom positioning for the trial lawyer with illustrations and photographs Ethical boundaries based on the ABA Model Rules Trial Advocacy: Planning, Analysis and Strategy is an outstanding, indispensable resource for law students and practicing trial lawyers. SEE IT - Full-Length Trial Demonstration Movie included with the Trial Advocacy book The axiom is that to hear is to forget but to see is to remember and to do is to understand. On a DVD that comes with the Trial Advocacy book is a 2-hour movie of the "Freck Point Trial." This trial demonstration film provides: Observations by true crime writer Ann Rule Model trial performances by experienced trial lawyers Trial attorneys' commentaries about their trial strategies A Movie of the Crime Scene where the civil and criminal cases arose DO IT - New Assignments and Case Files book Trial Advocacy: Assignments and Case Files book provides trial experience from case theory development through closing argument. The book includes: 84 role-play Assignments for a homicide case and a wrongful death case Case files for the civil and criminal case Checklists for trial performance Teacher's Manual (228 pages) Actors' Guide (Witness instructions for role-playing) The Assignments book cross-references directly to Trial Advocacy: Planning, Analysis, and Strategy Trial Advocacy: Assignments and Case Files can be utilized as a companion to the Trial Advocacy: Planning, Analysis, and Strategy book or as a stand-alone trial performance book.