David Ball on Damages: The Essential Update

David Ball

Trial Guides, LLC

Recovering for Psychological Injuries is one of the bestselling trial strategy books ever written. While the book was originally known for its use in psychological injury cases, readers soon learned it had a much broader appeal for its wise advice on case preparation, dealing with experts, researching insurance issues, jury selection, and a wide range of other issues. Rules of the Road author Rick Friedman has called the book "a true masterpiece." Recovering for Psychological Injuries, Third Edition, updates and broadens the scope of the book for a new generation of lawyers. Drawing upon his experience in over five hundred jury trials, Barton instructs you on how to handle all the aspects of a case. In addition, Barton has several new sections with detailed advice on litigating cases, illustrated by cases he has handled in the twenty years since the last edition. The new book reflects Barton's wisdom gained from handling difficult factual cases, and broadens its application to a wide variety of litigation. Recovering for Psychological Injuries is full of the strategies and techniques you need in today's legal field to win, even in your most challenging cases.

Recovering for Psychological Injuries

William A. Barton

With Rules of the Road, Rick Friedman revolutionized the way plaintiff lawyers structure their cases; with Polarizing the Case, he gave us the weapons to fight back against the most common and insidious defenses raised by our opponents. Now, in Rick Friedman on Becoming a Trial Lawyer, Friedman turns to the inner obstacles that keep us from reaching our full potential as trial lawyers. Combining nuts-and-bolts practical advice with inspirational insights, he guides us on the journey every trial lawyer must take, from the struggle to gain trial experience to the search for happiness in a career fraught with conflict and frustration. Along the way he addresses topics as diverse as common mistakes made by even the most experienced trial lawyer to the benefits of psychotherapy. The perfect gift for yourself--or for any other trial lawyer in your life.

Rick Friedman on Becoming a Trial Lawyer by Rick Friedman (2008-05-04)

Rick Friedman

Legal Self-Help

Eric Oliver is a noted trial consultant, speaker and educator who has specialized in verbal, nonverbal, and implicit communication skills for over twenty-eight years-twenty-five working with trial lawyers. This book provides the best of his advice over this career as one of the country's leading trial consultants. In the book, Oliver discusses how trial lawyers can prepare and present more receiver-friendly cases for settlement presentation and in trial. The advice helps lawyers build a presentation plan for each case, which they can adapt to any venue. This presentation plan integrates the verbal, visual, and personal parts of the case story, and is based on the decision-makers needs and expectations. Oliver also discusses how to uncover those expectations in focus groups and voir dire.

Persuasive Communication: Twenty-Five Years of Teaching Lawyers

Eric Oliver

Rules of the Road is America's best-selling text on proving liability. In the five years since it's original release, it has helped lawyers throughout the country win six, seven, and eight figure verdicts in cases with difficult liability. The authors have now honed this ground-breaking work in this second edition. In addition to revisions throughout the book clarifying concepts in the first edition, Friedman and Malone have added six new chapters and three appendices. They cover the differences between rules and principles, how to troubleshoot your rules, and hot to fit Rules of the Road techniques into your case themes. They discuss how to use Rules earlier in the case, through the motions in limine, and voir dire. They include samples of rules from a variety of cases, including medical malpractice, product liability, insurance claims cases, motor vehicle cases and more. In addition to their own experiences in the last five years of trying cases with the Rules of the Road technique, the authors include contributions from other successful attorneys, and they teach you how to use these tools to win your own trials.

Rules of the Road A Plaintiff Lawyer's Guide to Proving Liability

PATRICK MALONE

If you've tried any cases, you understand that a trial is as much an art form as it is a test of facts. Psychodrama can help you better understand your clients, their backgrounds, and what shaped them before they came to you. It helps you to present the compelling story of your case through a better understanding of the parties', experts', and witnesses' motivations. It will also help you prepare your cases and direct them from intake to trial. This book is a step-by-step manual that will help lawyers who are new to psychodrama learn the basic techniques, and will help more seasoned lawyers perfect their skills. The book begins with the history of psychodrama in law, then moves on to describe the specific tools and techniques that trial lawyers use. Each instructional chapter gives a "how to," followed by an example, and finishes with an exercise you can try at home. Finally, the book gives concrete examples of how you can use your newly found psychodrama tools and skills in all parts of a trial, from voir dire to closing. Psychodrama is not for the faint of heart. It's a method for those lawyers ready to join the ranks of the best lawyers in the world.

Trial in Action: The Persuasive Power of Psychodrama

Joane Garcia-Colson

Fredilyn Sison

Mary Peckham

Show the Story: The Power of Visual Advocacy

William S. Bailey & Robert W. Bailey

Imagine a cross-examination technique that can consistently destroy a witness's credibility, elicit surprising answers, and create the powerful moments that win hard cases. Imagine a strategy that allows you to easily control hostile witnesses and get exactly what you want from them-support for the crucial points of your case. Dynamic Cross-Examination rejects the old adage that you must never ask a question to which you do not know the answer. Instead, this book reveals the importance of remaining flexible and being unafraid to take risks. Author James H. McComas, an attorney well known for winning seemingly impossible cases, explains that taking a more creative approach to advocacy opens the door to achieving much greater success. By mixing leading and nonleading questions, closely monitoring a witness's behavior, maintaining a fluid and energetic pace, and adapting your line of questioning to take advantage of unexpected responses, you can create and seize opportunities to drive your points home during cross-examination. That is why Rick Friedman, in his foreword to this book, affirms that he has used McComas's method in every cross-examination he has conducted over the past twenty years. In this straightforward book, McComas leads you through nine case studies that demonstrate the effectiveness of his Dynamic Cross-Examination technique in civil and criminal cases. Insightful commentary accompanies each transcript, offering you concrete examples of how to elicit opportunities to win from a witness, discredit eyewitness and expert testimony, effectively use in-court demonstrations, handle objections, and deliver killer comebacks. As McComas shows, the key to winning a tough trial is using cross-examination to promote your own case, while undermining your opponent. Dynamic Cross-Examination gives you the confidence you need to think on your feet and get exactly what you want from witnesses.

Dynamic Cross Examination: A Whole New Way to Create Opportunities to Win

James H. McComas

Winning Medical Malpractice Cases With the Rules of the Road™ Technique

Moe Levine has been called "the Shakespeare of trial advocacy." His methods of trying cases serve as a foundation for many of today's finest plaintiff's lawyers.One of the most important trial lawyers of the twentieth century, Levine tried thousands of jury trials in multiple states. He was a leader in expanding tort law and setting medical standards of care throughout the country. He was ahead of his time in considering the intersection of law and medicine.This book is the result of a cooperative effort between Trial Guides and the American Association for Justice. Most of the material in this book comes from Moe Levine's lectures at national legal conventions between the 1940s and 1970s, and much of the content has never before been published.The book also contains a series of legal articles written by Levine from the 1950s through the 1970s that have never been made available in any book up until this time.Rick Friedman, one of the United States' leading trial lawyers, provides the foreword to this book, describing the importance of Levine's trial concepts on today's leading lawyers.

Moe Levine on Advocacy II

Moe Levine

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