Direct Examinations
WHAT'S INCLUDED
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Total 70 minutes of professionally produced video.
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Each video features presentations of the techniques and two junior litigators demonstrating them through exercises
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Direct Examinations 1 is bundled with Direct Examinations 2
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Show Notes
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Handbook, Introduction to Trial Advocacy, by John Hollander in his law school course of that name
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Advocacy Club Certificate of Completion
Present the story through your witness
In direct examination, the lawyer conducts a
structured interview with a witness who can be prepared for this in advance.
The witness tells the story, led by the lawyer.
In this two-video course, you will learn how to apply the lessons from
Interview Techniques to get the evidence to establish the case identified using
the lessons from Case Analysis.
Where the first video focuses on proving your theory, the second focuses on introducing the witness to the decision-maker (background) and then inoculating the witness against the coming cross-examination.
Persuade the trial judge
Litigators need to present their witnesses in the
best way to make their stories credible, persuasive.
In this course, you will learn how to humanize your witness, how to establish
rapport to make the testimony as painless as possible.
Using the Advocacy Club's Five-and Out Technique, you will learn how to keep
your witness on the right track and let the decision-maker follow the evidence
as easily as possible. You will reduce risk of something going wrong, either
during the direct or later, in cross.
John Hollander
John also teaches analysis and advocacy techniques to students at the University of Ottawa's school of common law. He has introduced experiential courses, in which he uses the Advocacy Club methodology to train upper-year law students to become junior associates in litigation practices.
John's handbook on Examinations in Civil Cases is available from Irwin Law, on the Shop Tab.
