Trials: Tips, Tactics & Tales featuring Michael Cash -- REVISED DATE
Total Credits: 6 including 6 Criminal Law
- Average Rating:
- 4
- Categories:
- Criminal Litigation | Injury and Wrongful Death
- Faculty:
- Michael Cash
- Duration:
- 7 Hours 30 Minutes
- License:
- Not Applicable
- Location:
- ASU's Beus Center for Law and Society - Phoenix, Arizona
Description
You've likely seen dozens of trial advocacy instructors. Many were probably very good - some great. But you haven't seen anybody like Mike Cash.
Cash's timing and gift for delivery were developed in his prior life as a stand-up comic and were honed in the courtroom. They are evident and important aspects of his presentations of trial and integral to his skill as a seminar leader. Cash presents tips and tactics illustrated with tales from actual trials where they were successfully (and sometimes unsuccessfully) employed. Trials is a fast-paced program, rich with demonstration and worth every second of your attention.
- pre-trial tips that will allow you to shut down your opponent at trial;
- high impact openings;
- illuminating direct examinations of any kind of witness that will hold a jury's attention;
- decisive cross-examinations which will unravel a witness;
- how to create and use show-stopping demonstrative evidence; and
- closing arguments that move the jury to action.
- Discover pre-trial tips that will allow you to shut down your opponent at trial.
- Demonstrations of high impact openings and closing arguments that move the jury to action.
- Tips and tactics illustrated with tales from the real-life trials where they were employed.
Your peers come back again and again to see Mike Cash...
Click on the image below to check out highlights from Mike's remarkable seminar.
Program Agenda
The Trial Lawyer - A Dying Breed
Pre-Trial
What To Do Before the Trial Starts
- Supplies
- Preparation
- "The little things"
Motion in Limine
- What Matters
- What Doesn't
- Using Your Discovery as a Guide
Voir Dire
Keep Your Friends Close - Get Rid of Your Enemies
- Questions Designed to Persuade
- Questions Designed to Eliminate
Opening Statement
You Get 10 Seconds - Don't Waste Them
- Theming
- Delivery
- Persuasion
Direct Examination
Lights...Camera...Action!
- Witnesses Preparation
- Conducting an Effective Direct
- lay witnesses
- party/non-party
- reluctant witnesses
- techniques that reinforce
- timelines
- "easy to do - hard to do well"
- experts - a special breed
LUNCH BREAK
Cross-Examination
Impeachment - How-to and Not-to: The Keys to a Powerful Impeachment
- Hard Cross vs. Soft Cross
- Objectives and Tactics
- Control
- Experts
Battling the Sharks
- How to Attach the Expert Without Becoming the Prey
- How to Spot (and Avoid) Danger
Demonstrative Evidence
Educate and Entertain
- High tech vs. Low tech
- The Best I Ever Saw!
- Control the Technology
- Big Hat, No Cattle?
Tips and Tactics That Can Save You at Trial
Closing Argument
"It Ain't Over Till It's Over"
- Substance with Sizzle
- Keys to a Powerful Closing
Faculty

Michael Cash Related Seminars and Products
Liskow & Lewis, of Houston, TX
Cash has represented plaintiffs and defendants in complex commercial litigation in state and federal courts for more than 20 years. His clients include such heavyweights as Exxon Mobil, PetSmart, Group 1 Automotive, and Lender Processing Services, Inc.
He has recovered millions of dollars for clients in complex commercial litigation and has defended corporate clients across America in areas including trade secret and patent litigation, contractual disputes, ERISA matters, accounting and legal malpractice.
He has successfully defended energy companies in mass tort litigation, defended a governor's chief of staff and press secretary in defamation suits, and represented an Enron director in securities litigation.
Cash is a cum laude graduate of Baylor University School of Law where he was editor of, and a contributing author to, the Baylor Law Review. He is a Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation and the Houston Bar Foundation.
Location
ASU's Beus Center for Law and Society

(480) 965-8425
beuscenterforlawandsociety.com