Pozner on Cross: The Chapter Method, is a unique and entertaining program that teaches advanced methods to recognize, write, and deliver winning cross-examinations.   

Pozner believes powerful cross-examinations are the result of the application of well-understood techniques.  These techniques can easily be learned and immediately used by lawyers regardless of their number of trials or years of practice. Building on principles of neuroscience and behavioral psychology, Pozner will explain how to turn cross-examination into storytelling, and how those stories will cause jurors, judges, or arbitrators to make decisions based on the facts they vividly recall.  Pozner uses more than 250 PowerPoint slides to show the steps to each technique, accompanied by short examples of the resulting cross-examination. This highly polished seminar enables participants to easily learn these advanced techniques, and to be able to immediately employ them in their current cases.  

Examples of these  modern techniques are  constructive cross-examination,  which allows us to use the opponent’s witness to prove much of our case and thereby diminish our need to win the case through direct examinations, and asymmetrical cross-examination which discards the outdated theory that cross-examination  is primarily a rebuttal to the direct examination,  and replaces it with the concept that cross-examination  is an expression of our factual agenda.   

Pozner on Cross: The Chapter Method, is an outgrowth of Pozner’s book Cross  

Examination: Science and Techniques (soon to be published in a 4th Ed, by Pozner and Dodd.)  His book and seminar revolutionized our profession’s view of the purposes and methods of modern cross.  

Home studies will be available approximately 2-3 weeks following the live program. 

If disability accommodations or special assistance are needed, please contact us at [email protected]. Requests must be made at least two weeks prior to the scheduled program. 

The program will be submitted for CLE accreditation in Colorado. If you need to seek accreditation in another state, please review the process and requirements for that individual state. CBA-CLE staff can provide a Uniform Certificate of Attendance, and it is the attendee’s responsibility to complete the accreditation outside of Colorado.