Legal Resources on How to Succeed in Cross Examination

  One of America's leading litigators, and Trial Guides' bestselling author, Rick Friedman brings you the first practical text on the fundamental skills you need to know when handling a trial. With trial experience increasingly rare, The Elements of Trial provides a concise guide for law professors, law students, and every lawyer preparing for trial. This book offers invaluable advice on the following aspects of trial: Investigating your case Interviewing and preparing witnesses Organizing trial notebooks, discovery information, trial briefs, and exhibits Creating a theme

From Patrick Malone, co-creator of the groundbreaking Rules of the Road™ trial technique, comes another important book: The Fearless Cross-Examiner. The current approach to cross-examination is dated, and in this book, Malone systematically demolishes these tired and restrictive ideas in favor of a more adaptable and effective approach. The Fearless Cross-Examiner gives a detailed look at what it takes to conduct case-winning cross-examinations. Malone offers advice on the place of cross in successful case-building, how you can discredit dishonest witnesses without alienating the jury, and on how to combat the various problems you will encounter during cross-examinations. He also provides perspectives on how personal reflection and self-improvement can help y...

Imagine a cross-examination technique that can consistently destroy a witness's credibility, elicit surprising answers, and create the powerful moments that win hard cases. Imagine a strategy that allows you to easily control hostile witnesses and get exactly what you want from them—support for the crucial points of your case. Dynamic Cross-Examination rejects the old adage that you must never ask a question to which you do not know the answer. Instead, this book reveals the importance of remaining flexible and being unafraid to take risks. Author James H. McComas, an attorney well known for winning seemingly impossible cases, explains that taking a more creative approach to advocacy opens the door to achieving much greater success. By mixing leading and non-le...

Cross Examination: Science and Techniques by Pozner & Dodd has long been the leading text on cross examination in the legal profession. Exhaustive in its coverage at 744 pages, it addresses every area and nuance of cross examination.  This book is applicable to lawyers in the fields of business litigation, intellectual property litigation, family law, personal injury, criminal law, and other areas of law.

Often the most challenging cross examinations in a personal injury case, are those of the defense doctors. Author Dorothy Clay Sims is known amongst the national plaintiff bar as the go-to lawyer for dismantling defense doctors’ unsubstantiated opinions. Her book deals with ways to research the adverse witness, prepare for their deposition and then how to dismantle their testimony. The book will enable you to reveal dishonesty, bias, over-reaching, and incompetence by defense doctors in multiple specialties.

In Trial Tactics, legendary trial lawyers Rick Friedman and Roger Dodd present solutions for effectively handling every element of a civil jury trial—from case selection to post-trial motions. Friedman and Dodd bring together their most important methods, discussing how to use Pozner & Dodd’s method of cross-examination in cases where you also use Friedman's Rules of the Road™. In this recorded seminar presentation, they answer questions that stump even the most experienced lawyers: How to most effectively deal with limited or no voir dire in your jurisdiction Creating a cohesive and empowered jury, starting in voir dire How to deal with a client’s difficult background in voir dire and opening How and when to talk about mone...

Polarizing the Case from Trial Guides on Vimeo.   Polarizing the Case is the #3 book of all time at Trial Guides, just behind Rules of the Road and David Ball on Damages. It has been called ...

This DVD set contains highlights from the first advanced Trial Guides CLE seminar dedicated to motor vehicle cases. It features epidemiologist/crash reconstructionist Dr. Arthur Croft, researcher Dr. Paul Ivancic, and trial lawyer Dr. Aaron DeShaw. In addition to handling a wide variety of issues related to injury causation, accident reconstruction, and typical defenses related to all types of auto cases, the set also addresses challenges specific to minor impact cases. It provides an advanced and in-depth consideration of motor vehicle cases that will take you from the fundamentals of insurance claims settlement and through more advanced topics. This set will give you the information necessary to get your clients fair compensation for their losses and overcome the defe...

Deposition and cross examination preparation isn’t just about your preparation for cross of the opposing witnesses. You need to concentrate on your client and witness preparation as well. In this video, Don Keenan and David Ball show a series of witness preparation sessions, and discuss the issues you need to watch out for that can sabotage client testimony. Unlike the Preparing for Deposition DVD below, this product isn’t for the client to watch. It is for the lawyer who is learning about how to prepare witnesses property before they testify.

  The Art of Cross-Examination by Francis Wellman has been one of the definitive titles on the subject of cross-examination for over a century. Wellman’s enduring work has inspired generations of trial lawyers, dedicated men and women who work tirelessly in the pursuit of justice. Now with a new foreword and commentary, this reprint of the second edition of Wellman’s great work seamlessly blends ageless advice with contemporary insight from one of America’s leading experts on the practice of cross-examination. Roger Dodd, coauthor of Cross-Examination: Science and Techniques, guides the reader through each chapter, pointing out what still works—and why—and where the reader should be aware of how things have changed over the passage of time. Dodd...

Every case deserves witnesses who are prepared for deposition and trial. In Preparing for Depositions, Karen Koehler, co-author of Litigating Minor Impact Soft Tissue Cases, instructs your client and witnesses on how to testify successfully. Through easy-to-understand and enjoyable-to-watch "Do" and "Don't" scenarios, Koehler guides your witness out of the pitfalls of a messy deposition. The DVD is broken down into ten short, essential rules of testimony that all of your witnesses need to know. Preparing for Depositions is something you can use in every litigation case to minimize your deposition and testimony preparation time. Help your witnesses help you. Give them the tools to prepare for informed and accurate testimony. This DVD was origin...