Trial Advocacy

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.

This unique coursebook has a number of distinguishing features.

Legal Analysis: 100 Exercises for Mastery: Practice for Every Law Student offers 100 paced exercises to sharpen students' legal analysis skills.

The mock trial case files and problems in this text are designed to provide opportunities for students to put into practice the theory of courtroom litigation.

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.

This book takes a collaborative approach to legal interviewing and counseling.

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.

In this edition of Trial Practice, one of the first trial advocacy books, the authors provide a comprehensive update and overview of what it takes to successfully try a case before a jury or a judge, from trial strategy to implementation.