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...

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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