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Strategies for Witness Examination: Yours and Theirs

Strategies for Witness Examination: Yours and Theirs
Thursday, October 17, 2024 |12:00 pm-1:00 pm
Format: Webinar

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:
Free to Members | $69 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

 

This program provides transitional/non-transitional credit to all attorneys

For New York Attorneys: Newly admitted attorneys (those admitted to the New York State Bar for two years or less) may participate in Skills CLE courses in  live, nontraditional formats, where questions are allowed during the program (through December 31, 2024 per recent guidance of the CLE Board – for more information, click here).  

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

Sponsoring Organization: Small Law Firm Center

Thank you to our sponsor.



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Online Event


Thursday, 17 October 2024

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