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Strategies for Witness Examination: Yours and Theirs

Strategies for Witness Examination: Yours and Theirs (OnDemand)
Originally held on Thursday, October 17, 2024 |12:00 pm-1:00 pm


Description:
Join Claude E. Ducloux, Board-Certified in both Civil Trial Law and Civil Appellate Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, and also licensed in California and Colorado, as well as a former Chair of the Texas Center for Legal Ethics, for a comprehensive 60-minute presentation. This session will include an annotated PowerPoint covering essential aspects of witness preparation and courtroom presentation. Key topics include:

• When and why you need witnesses
• Knowing your elements of proof for the claim or defense
• Explaining the witness’s role – demeanor and presentation
• The importance of credibility: body language, certainty, and skill
• Understanding your own case theory: the elevator speech
• Making your questions comprehensible
• Making the answers comprehensible
• Choreography and use of exhibits
• Framing issues and witness preparation
• Witness advisories for training
• Using the witness stand
• Special skills for handling experts
• Avoiding improper objections and arguments
• Admitting your weak points and finding theirs
• Reading the opposing witness’s body language
• Listening skills: critical to success
• Never forget your audience – different age groups learn differently
• The danger of cross-examining a non-credible witness
• Ethical considerations involving the presentation of evidence

Participants will receive access to the PowerPoint presentation for further reference and study.

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Program Fee:
$29 to Members | $50 for Nonmembers
  
CLE Credit:
New York: 1.0 Skills 
New Jersey: 1.1 General
California: 1.0 General 
Pennsylvania: 1.0 General
Connecticut: Available to Licensed Attorneys

 

Newly admitted attorneys in New York CANNOT earn skills, ethics, or cybersecurity-ethics credit for transitional on-demand courses but CAN earn credits in the areas of professional practice, law practice management, or cybersecurity-general if offered for this program.
  

Speaker:
Claude E. Ducloux, Director of Education, Affinipay-LawPay

Sponsoring Organization: Small Law Firm Center

Thank you to our sponsor.



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