Developing Professional Skills: Evidence

by Ric Simmons

Using Developing Professional Evidence as a supplement to your regular casebook makes it easy to integrate skills training into the classroom. Nine exercises provide an opportunity for students to hone writing, legal research and analysis, and other practical legal skills. The exercises are intended to demonstrate how the Rules of Evidence affect different aspects of a trial lawyer’s job and help students begin to develop their professional identity as attorneys. Students spend a manageable two to three hours on tasks Counselling a clientReviewing trial transcripts to prepare an appealPreparing for cross-examinationInterviewing a complaining witnessDrafting comments on proposed rule changesPreparing an expert witness

134 pages, Paperback

Published November 20, 2023