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Basic Trial Advocacy
Standard text on trying cases to judges and juries. Covers case planning, opening statements, direct and cross examination, demonstratives and exhibits, expert testimony, closings, trial lawyer ethics and more!
408 pages, Paperback
First published December 19, 2003
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December 30, 2025
having to read two books this calendar year with “basic” in the title is offensive. this book is good and I imagine will be helpful. one would think for a book on trial presentation it would be more concise/less repetitive.
January 23, 2019
Good book on the fundamentals of trial advocacy. The book goes really well with a class that forces you to apply it's strategies to simulated scenarios.
September 24, 2021
I read this book and now I am Clarence Darrow.
January 18, 2009
The examples were great. The principles seemed sound. I liked the outline format. The sections of the book that were more talky (did I just write "talky"? it's late) and less immediately useful were easy to spot and skip over, though I did like the idea of the lawyer as storyteller or teacher. A good primer; not bad at all for required reading. And I guess the author gets points because he's from Maine.
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