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Trial Advocacy Before Judges, Jurors, and Arbitrators

7th Edition
Roger Haydock | John Sonsteng | Damien Riehl
ISBN: 9781685614966
Subject: Trial Practice
Format: Print - Softbound
Page Count: 911
Copyright: 2025 | Status: In Stock
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This widely adopted book has become the preeminent advocacy text for law students and lawyers. The chapters extensively explore planning and preparation, procedures and motions, evidence and objections, direct and cross examinations, the use of exhibits, opening statements and summation, jury selection, and verdicts and appeals. These chapters enable students and attorneys to develop as highly competent, responsible, and ethical trial lawyers. They will learn how to thoroughly prepare and present civil and criminal cases in state and federal courts and to be productive advocates in judicial, arbitral, and administrative law forums. Included QR codes unlock an interactive version of the book that answers questions, provides strategic and tactical ideation, and demonstrates how AI can make advocacy more efficient and effective.

This Edition continues to cover the strategies, tactics, and techniques applicable to advocacy cases and provides examples and illustrations of successful advocates. Materials include the evidentiary impact of electronic information, contemporary computer-generated exhibits, and modern foundations for the introduction of emails and social network communications. Examples from history, literature, films, and the arts demonstrate advocacy skills in an interesting and relevant manner that makes learning advocacy both highly educational and entertaining. This Edition also demonstrates how Generative AI (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) can help students and lawyers streamline trial preparation, including refining arguments, enhancing cross-examinations, and improving jury presentations. A companion Supplement contains complete transcripts of a civil jury trial, an arbitration, and an administrative hearing along with the federal rules of evidence and selected rules of procedure.


Imprint: West Academic Publishing
Series: American Casebook Series
Publication Date: 02/03/2025

Roger Haydock, Mitchell Hamline School of Law

John Sonsteng, Mitchell Hamline School of Law

Damien Riehl

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Significant additions and revisions were made to each chapter to make them more comprehensive and inclusive. These comprise: new approaches and strategies involving storytelling techniques, the use of contemporary social media evidence, the availability of new computer generated data and exhibits, the use of modern technology to prepare and present openings and closings, refined approaches to witness examination tactics, improved questions for direct and cross-examinations, new exhibit examples, and updated federal case law and civil and criminal procedure and evidence rule revisions. Also new are cutting-edge insights on leveraging LLMs and GenAI for trials and hearings, offering students and attorneys powerful tools to analyze, explore ideas, seek answers to questions, craft relevant materials, and optimize advocacy strategies. The textbook’s associated interactive tool—accessible via QR code—provides the groundbreaking integration of AI to improve, enhance, and expand educational experiences.

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