This practical guide helps you develop winning courtroom techniques and strategies.  From the opening address to the final argument, it provides:

• authoritative solutions to potential legal and practical problems that may arise during trial
• useful examples of how to elicit evidence and damage witness credibility
• detailed instruction on how to conduct examinations-in-chief, cross-examinations and arguments
• methods of successfully preparing witnesses for trial. 

This new edition features a number of new and reorganized chapters including new material on:

• The selection and presentation of a credible – and winning -  theory of a case
• The selection, organization and use of documents at trial
• Demonstrative evidence –  admissibility, laying the proper foundation, distinguishing between demonstrative evidence and demonstrative aids and the admissibility of videotapes, computer reconstruction and models
• Objections – when to object and when not to, timing and forms of objections
• Plus a major new section specifically devoted to expert witnesses - including who qualifies and the trial court’s “gatekeeper” function, the subject matter of expert testimony, retaining and preparing expert witnesses and direct and cross-examination of experts