BMI v. Minicom Trial Version

Donald H. Beskind is Professor of the Practice of Law at Duke University School of Law where he directs and teaches in its Trial Practice program and teaches Evidence and Torts. After practicing law in Colorado for several years, Mr. Beskind was, in succession at Duke Law School, a John S. Bradway Fellow, an assistant professor, and an associate professor and the director of the Clinical Legal Studies Program. Mr. Beskind returned to full time private practice from 1980 to 2010 specializing in plaintiff's tort litigation, and was been listed among the "Best Lawyers in America" in various publications since 1993. He continues to practice on a limited basis. Mr. Beskind was a long time program director for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy. He is co-author of BMI v. Minicom, Inc.; State v. Burns; Problems in Trial Advocacy; Effective Use of Courtroom Technology: A Lawyer's Guide to Pretrial and Trial; Developing Deposition Skills and North Carolina Evidentiary Foundations. He has published articles and spoken on evidentiary and trial skills topics and runs trial training programs in the U.S. and Great Britain.

Professor Anthony Bocchino is an honors graduate of the University of Connecticut School of Law, after which he was a Bradway Fellow at the Duke University School of Law. He served as a full-time faculty member at both the University of Connecticut School of Law and the Duke University Law School before joining the Temple University Beasley School of Law faculty in 1979. At the Beasley School of Law, for the period 1979–1989, he was Director of Temple's Trial Advocacy and Clinical Programs. He has designed the program, written materials, and taught in the law school’s Integrated Trial Advocacy Program, which has been twice awarded the Gumpert Award for Excellence in Teaching Trial Advocacy from the American College of Trial Lawyers, in addition to receiving the Gambrell Award for Teaching Professionalism from the American Bar Association. In 1997, he was named by Temple University as the Jack E. Feinberg Professor of Litigation.

Professor Bocchino has been honored with teaching awards from Duke University School of Law, where he received the Mordecai Society Award, and the Beasley School of Law, where he was the first recipient of the George P. Williams II Memorial Award. In addition, he has received the Oliphant Award from the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and the Richard S. Jacobson Award from the Association of Trial Lawyers of America for excellence in teaching the art and science of trial advocacy.

In addition to his law school duties, Professor Bocchino has served as a faculty member for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) since 1974, served as NITA's Director for five years and served as the organization’s Editor in Chief. Bocchino has written materials and designed programs for trial, deposition, fact investigation, motion practice, and appellate advocacy programs for more than thirty law firms and numerous public agencies. He has also conducted needs analyses and designed litigation skill curricula for numerous law firms. His CLE materials and program designs are among the most frequently utilized by those organizations. In addition, he has and will customize materials to the specific needs of individual clients.

Professor Bocchino is the author of over sixty books and articles, predominantly in the fields of evidence, trial advocacy, civil litigation and professional responsibility. His trial advocacy and/or deposition practice materials are used in a majority of the law schools in America, as well as in CLE litigation skills training in the public and private sectors.

Professor Bocchino has been elected as a member of the American Law Institute and named a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, Litigation Counsel of America, and the International Society of Barristers.