Provides a unique, realistic setting for evidentiary analysis; narrows the gap between theory and practice. Consisting primarily of transcripts, the book allows students to analyze and apply rules of evidence in question and answer dialogues. An excellent supplement to existing evidence course books for use in the classroom.

Bergman's Transcript Exercises for Learning Evidence (American Casebook Series)

BERGMAN, PAUL

Criminal Law

West Academic Publishing

Explains how to prepare a case for trial by identifying historical factual propositions that satisfy applicable legal elements; identifying evidence and inferences tending to prove or disprove the crucial factual propositions in a case; organizing evidence into persuasive arguments, whether the evidence is disputed or undisputed or suggests an implausibility in a witness' story; and understanding the influence of "silent arguments" and taking advantage of or countering such arguments. Illustrates interrelationship among evidence, argument, and technique. Sets forth and illustrates trial techniques so advocates can persuasively communicate their arguments to judges and jurors.

Trial Advocacy: Inferences, Arguments and Trial Techniques (American Casebook Series)

Moore, Albert

Binder, David

Rules & Procedures

Paul Bergman is a Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law and a recipient of a University Distinguished Teaching Award. The book is a handy reference for beginning and seasoned lawyers. The book discusses skills needed for the courtroom in an understandable and concise manner. While it certainly does not replace rules of procedure and experience, it is a nice complement to same. After reading it through once, throw it in your briefcase for quick reference when you need it most!

Trial Advocacy in a Nutshell

West Academic

This resource helps refine and improve deposition skills, such as obtaining answers to critical questions; finding out everything deponents know about topics and events; undercutting harmful testimony that emerges at deposition; obtaining information from deponents who claim not to understand questions or who interpret questions in a hypertechnical way; exploiting deponents’ conflicting statements; dealing with opposing counsel’s objections; undermining adverse experts’ opinions; and preparing for deposition. The book also contains chapters on taking special depositions, including those of an adverse expert, a Rule 30 (b) (6) deponent, and a deposition to preserve the testimony of your own witness for trial.

Depositions in a Nutshell (Nutshells)

Light, Jason

Bergman’s Trial Advocacy in a Nutshell encourages readers to develop their individual style by suggesting alternative reactions to common situations. The text uses a variety of factual settings and legal issues while identifying and illustrating different tactics and styles that can be used for examination and argument.

Trial Advocacy in a Nutshell (Nutshell Series)

West Group

Provides descriptions and illustrations of effective strategies and techniques for taking and defending depositions. Designed to serve as a text for a 2-4 unit stand-alone depositions course or as a supplement to a civil pre-trial lawyering course. Devotes separate chapters to such fundamental skills as obtaining helpful answers to critical questions, undercutting harmful testimony, obtaining a deponent's version of significant events, and obtaining information from evasive deponents. Other chapters include topics such as responding to inconsistent or implausible testimony, overcoming opposing counsel's objections and obstructionist tactics, and preparing a client to be deposed.

Deposition Questioning Strategies and Techniques (American Casebook Series)

Trial Advocacy in a Nutshell was one of the first works to analyze and illustrate discrete courtroom skills and techniques in the context of principles of persuasion. The Fifth Edition builds on that tradition with the concept of argument-centered narratives. Part 1 provides a concrete and detailed guide for developing credible stories that support advocates’ desired inferences. Part 2 analyzes and illustrates strategies, techniques and rules for presenting argument-centered narratives effectively during all phases of trial. The Fifth Edition incorporates a number of new features that make the book more indispensable for trial lawyers than ever. For example, the Fifth Edition discusses the most important of the Federal Rules of Evidence, and devotes a separate chapter to rules and strategies for presenting testimony from expert witnesses. Visual aids also gain additional prominence in the new edition, with an emphasis on foundational requirements for many more types of exhibits, especially those that are produced electronically or by courtroom graphics experts. Some of the illustrative examinations and arguments in the new edition are drawn from trials that took place in a variety of eras. For example, the chapter on closing argument compares arguments made in the murder trial of Euphiletus (Greece, circa 400 B.C.) with those made in the trial of OJ Simpson (1995). Among the other trials from which illustrations are drawn are those of the Rosenbergs (the so-called “atomic spies,” 1953), the Menendez Brothers (1991), the “Hillmon case” (1890’s), and the “Triangle Shirtwaist Fire” case (1911). The illustrations from these cases are not only interesting, but also suggestive of enduring principles of persuasion. Another added feature of the Fifth Edition are analyses of examples drawn from classic courtroom films such as Anatomy of a Murder, 12 Angry Men and My Cousin Vinny. Combined with these new features, the Fifth Edition preserves many of the features that have made the book so valuable to readers. For example, the book continues to carefully explain principles, illustrate them, and analyze the illustrations. Popular “models,” such as the Credibility Model and the Safety Model of Cross Examination, also appear in the new edition. Also carried forward is the book’s light tone which makes it not only useful but also a good read.

Trial Advocacy in a Nutshell (Nutshells)

Constructing Arguments for Trial-Credibility Arguments, Inferential Arguments, Normative Arguments, Silent Arguments; Trial Techniques, with an Emphasis of How to Advance Arguments Throughout the Trial -- Opening Statement, Direct and Cross Examination, Closing Argument, Exhibits, Objections, Jury Voir Dire, Experts; Illustrations from O.J. Simpson and Other Nationally Televised Trials.

Law Practice

Describes how facts are proved at trial, examining the principal categories of rational and psychological evidence, which is the basis of trial "stories." How, at trial, does each party tell a story bolstering its own legal position and detracting from that of its adversary? What attributes of stories tend to make them persuasive? From these attributes, the authors derive a set of investigatory objectives that generally apply, regardless of the nature of the case. With objectives in place, turns to the thought processes that lawyers employ to analyze and develop evidence.

Binder and Bergman's Fact Investigation: From Hypothesis to Proof (American Casebook Series)

From the earliest days of the movies, filmmakers have turned to the courtroom for stories because it is an ideal setting for both drama and comedy. Fans of those courtroom movies can turn to Reel Justice for a verdict on both recent and classic courtroom films. Informative and entertaining, Reel Justice rates trial scenes in films on a one-to-four-gavel scale, with four being a classic and one being "ask for a new trial." Authors Paul Bergman and Michael Asimow, both accomplished law professionals, discuss the cultural messages encoded in the films, point out what went right and wrong in scenes where liberties were taken, and even answer a few legal questions along the way. Completely revised and reformatted from the successful first edition, this new edition of Reel Justice includes more than two dozen recent movies as well as many older favorites that weren't covered in the first version. Just a few of the films reviewed: * A Time to Kill * Legally Blonde * Philadelphia * Inherit the Wind * A Few Good Men * The Devil's Advocate * I Am Sam * Intolerable Cruelty * Rules of Engagement * Twelve Angry Men * Ghosts of Mississippi * Runaway Jury Reel Justice is an indispensable video guide for film viewers who want the legal lowdown on courtroom scenes.

Reel Justice

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

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Bergman's Transcript Exercises for Learning Evidence (American Casebook Series)

Trial Advocacy: Inferences, Arguments and Trial Techniques (American Casebook Series)

Trial Advocacy in a Nutshell

Depositions in a Nutshell (Nutshells)

Trial Advocacy in a Nutshell (Nutshell Series)

Deposition Questioning Strategies and Techniques (American Casebook Series)

Trial Advocacy in a Nutshell (Nutshells)

Trial Advocacy in a Nutshell (Nutshell Series)

Binder and Bergman's Fact Investigation: From Hypothesis to Proof (American Casebook Series)

Reel Justice