We offer a selection of topics in 90-minute programs, each presented by one Trial Run principal.  Many are appropriate for both junior and senior lawyers.  You determine the size of the audience.

Topics:

• DEPOSITIONS, DISCOVERY, AND PRE-TRIAL
  • Deposition Questions: Open-ended v. Leading
  • Discarding Inefficient Discovery: Streamlining
  • Discovery Using Rule 30(b)(6) and Discovery
  • Depositions
  • What to Do When They Notice the Deposition of the CEO
  • Fact Witness Interviewing and Active Listening
  • Strategies to Aid Women Litigators to Overcome the
  • Biases and Tactics that Impair Effective Advocacy
  • Managing the Major Case
  • The Last 90 Days before Trial
• EXPERT WITNESSES
  • Expert Report Pitfalls: Drafting and Defending
  • Experts’ Reports
  • Expert Challenges: Working with Daubert, Joiner and
  • Kumho Tire
  • Organizing Expert Direct Examination – A Structure that Aids Persuasion
• TRIAL
  • Visual Evidence: Creation, Foundation, and Challenges to Visual Presentations at Trial
  • Basic Impeachment and Cross-Examination Techniques
  • Jury Speeches: 10 Rules for Opening, Closing, and Rebuttal
  • Gender and Persuasive Techniques
  • Gender Issues in Questioning
  • Gender and Speeches:  Openings and Closings that Resonate and Reverberate
  • From Objection to Objectionable: Interactive Evidence Training
• ALTERNATIVES TO TRIAL
  • Mediation Advocacy
  • Alternative Dispute Resolution – Is it Right for Your Case?
  • The Vanishing Jury Trial: Fashion Your Discovery Toward Settlement
• CONTRACT DRAFTING
  • Contracts for Litigators: an Overview
    Basic Contract Drafting for Transactional Lawyers: the Building Blocks
  • Basic Contract Drafting for Transactional Lawyers: Ambiguity
    Basic Contract Drafting for Transactional Lawyers: Boilerplate