Trial Advocacy Law Books

Appellate Advocacy: Principles and Practice is designed primarily for use in an upper class appellate practice course. It will provide students with a basic understanding of the most fundamental principles of appellate litigation, using examples from the federal system as well as several illustrative states.

This book teaches fundamental trial advocacy skills, and it helps readers both prepare systematically for what they can expect to face in the courtroom and handle those sands as they shift.

The second edition of these case files include a variety of civil and criminal fact patterns that provide students the opportunity to try their hand at opening statements and closing arguments, as well as at direct and cross-examinations.

While expert witnesses and forensic evidence increasingly have taken a dominant role in both criminal and civil litigation, lawyers remain largely untrained in the scientific method.

Using both problems and simulations, this set of materials is designed to teach the reader to approach Evidence in a systematic manner; to analyze both legal doctrine and the factual setting in which that doctrine works.

This book guides the reader through the trial process, suggesting techniques and strategies for each stage of the trial process—pretrial, trial, and post-trial motions; jury selection; opening statements; direct and cross-examination; and closing arguments.

The Complete Advocate II: Employment Offenses in Health Care Contexts, A Practice File for Representing Clients from Beginning to End, is designed to guide a student through all aspects of a legal process: researching an area of law, filing pleadings, writing and arguing motions, proposing settlement, and pursuing and arguing appeals-from the beginning of the process to the end.

The Complete Advocate: A Practice File for Representing Clients from Beginning to End can be thought of as a start-to-finish approach to representing a client - a realistic way for a student to be oriented into the administration of a case from the preliminary stages until the very end.

The Pretrial Process covers all stages of pretrial litigation comprehensively, pragmatically, and succinctly without being over-simplified. This book is designed to be useful both to clinical students working on their first cases and to classroom students expecting an intellectually satisfying law school experience.

This Document Supplement includes the following material: Federal Rules of Civil Procedure; Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Appendix of Forms; Additional District Court Forms; Local Rules of the U.S. District Court; Local Rules for Electronic Filing; Attorney's Handbook for Practice in the District Court; District Court Handbook on Civil Discovery Practice; Standing Order on Discovery of Electronically Stored Information; Federal Rules of Evidence; Selected Indiana Rules of Professional Conduct; Standards for Professional Conduct; Example Stipulation Regarding Remote Depositions.