Winning at Trial: Trade Secrets of Top Trial Lawyers - Video Replay Grand Junction
November 2017
Winning at Trial: Trade Secrets of Top Trial Lawyers
Co-sponsored by the American College of Trial Lawyers – Colorado Chapter
Program Description:
Trial Lawyers—the American College of Trial Lawyers – Colorado Chapter - is thinking of you. This one-of-a-kind trial skills and advocacy program is the result!
Your faculty are preeminent figures of the Colorado and national bench and bar. All are also Fellows of the esteemed American College of Trial Lawyers. They will tackle trial work’s most difficult tasks, and provide you with strategies for successfully handling them. Plus, you will hear what it takes to succeed as a trial lawyer and to present in a powerful, persuasive and effective manner.
Trial lawyers of all experience levels will pick up tips, ideas, and insights from the jam-packed agenda. This program will help you be a better trial lawyer now and set you on the path to be an even better trial lawyer as you continue to work on what you will learn in this program.
Register now! Don’t miss this rare opportunity to learn, hear from, and touch elbows with, the best of the best.
You Will Learn:
- Mastering Skills and Values Critical to Success as a Trial Lawyer
- Creative Uses and Best Practices for Pre-Trial Research
- Strategies for Voir Dire
- How to Deliver Opening Statements
- Maximizing Demonstrative Exhibits
- Mastering Cross Exam and Impeachment
- Giving Your Best Closing Arguments
- Strategies for Persuasive Speaking
- Perspectives of Venerable Judges at Various Levels of the Judiciary
Who Should Attend? Attorneys at All Levels Who Want to Become the Very Best Trial Lawyer You Can Be
Join us for a Networking Reception After the Program!
Program Agenda
8:00 am
Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:25 am
Welcome, Introductions, and Overview
Presented by Kenzo Kawanabe, Esq., and Christopher Toll, Esq., Program Co-Chairs
8:30 am
Success as a Trial Lawyer
- Skills and Values Critical to Success as a Trial Lawyer
- A Trial Lawyer’s Demeanor and Persona
Presented by Fred H. Bartlit, Jr., Esq.
9:20 am
Creative Uses and Best Practices for Pre-Trial Research
- When and why to conduct research
- The key signs you are getting effective research
- Thinking outside the “jury” box
Presented by Shelley Spiecker, Ph.D., Senior Litigation Consultant, and Christopher Toll, Esq.
10:10 am
Networking Break
10:20 am
Voir Dire
- Strategies and Techniques for (DE) Selecting Jurors
- So Much to Ask, So Little Time
Presented by Kevin J. Kuhn, Esq.
11:10 am
Opening Statements
- Tell Your Story
- Do Not Just List Witnesses and Documents
Presented by Charles L. Casteel, Esq.
12:00 pm
Lunch on Your Own
1:00 pm
Demonstrative Exhibits
- Instant Impact
- Show AND Tell
Presented by Frederick J. Baumann, Esq.
1:50 pm
Cross Exam and Impeachment
- Making Your Key Points Through Others
- Methods to Discredit the Other Side’s Witnesses
Presented by Christina M. Habas, Esq.
2:40
Closing Arguments
- Why Your Side Wins
- Now You Can Argue
- Your Last Chance
Presented by Hugh Q. Gottschalk, Esq.
3:30 pm
Networking Break
3:40 pm
Persuasive Speaking
- From the Unique Perspective of a Judge Simultaneously Serving at the Trial and Appellate Court Levels
- Tips for Effective Trial and Appellate Advocacy
Presented by the Honorable David M. Ebel
4:30 pm
Judicial Panel
- Learn from Former Trial Lawyers Turned Judges at Various Levels of the Judiciary
- View from the Bench
- Effective Advocacy
Panelists:
The Honorable David M. Ebel
The Honorable R. Brooke Jackson
The Honorable A. Bruce Jones
Moderated by Maureen Reidy Witt, Esq.
5:30 pm
Adjourn to Networking Reception
Location Information
Law Office of Baird B Brown PC
1250 E Sherwood Dr
Grand Junction, CO
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1250 E Sherwood Dr
Grand Junction, CO
Registration Fees
| Non Member | $369.00 |
| CBA Member | $339.00 |
| Colorado ACTL Member | $309.00 |
| CBA Litigation Section Member | $309.00 |
| New Lawyer Edge Partner | $169.50 |
| CLEACCESSBASIC - BASIC Pass Holder | $0.00 |
| CLEACCESSPASS--ELITE Pass Holder | $0.00 |
- General Credits: 9.00
- Ethics Credits: 0.00
- EDI Credits:
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