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May 7, 2010
Clydesdales in the Courtroom
MacCarthy and Cobb
Westin Hotel, Columbus, OH
Friday, May 7, 2010
Clydesdales in the Courtroom
Terence MacCarthy and Dale Cobb
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9:00 a.m. Communication For Trial Lawyers
• First and foremost a trial lawyer must be a skilled communicator
• Know your audience
• How to physically use the courtroom as a stage
• The basic rules of communications
• Use the rhetorical forms of speech
10:00 a.m. Voir Dire
• The importance and proper ways to get information
• Getting the jurors to like and relate to you
• Developing the theories of your case
10:45 a.m. Opening Statements
• What you can and cannot do
• What you should not do
• What you should do
• Primacy - recency
11:30 a.m. Direct Examination
• No boring "legal speech"
• Primacy - recency
• Introducing your witness
• Putting witness in narrative
• Demonstrative evidence
• Explain the complex
• Looping
12:15 p.m. lunch (provided)
1:15 p.m. Cross Examination
• Present Tense
• Primacy - recency
• No conversation - no dialogue - a monologue
• Look good - tell a story - use short statements
• Tweak the puppy
2:15 p.m. Impeachment
• The 13 ways to impeach
• How to impeach
3:15 p.m. Closing Argument
• Primacy - recency
• Helping jurors do the right thing
4:00 p.m. Jury Instructions
• Help make instructions understandable
• Empower each juror
• The theory of the case instructions
5:00 p.m. Adjourn
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