Courtroom Skills and Strategies

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Overview

A 7-Hour in-person seminar in Nashville that presents wide array of practical tips for fine-tuning your skills in the courtroom -- and in deposition and motion practice.  Topics discussed include:

• Practical deposition tips, including how to prep your client for deposition, how to depose expert witnesses, and how to defend your own expert in a deposition
• Motions in limine:  How to get the most of this often overlooked litigation tool
• Fine tuning your direct examination and cross examination techniques
• How to accentuate your closing argument with effective visual aids
• The ethics of confidentiality:  What you may not know!

Speaker(s)

William R Newman of The University of Southern Mississippi

Keith D. Obert of Obert Law Group, P. A.

Meeting Site

Nashville School of Law

4013 Armory Oaks Drive

Nashville, TN  37204-4577

Agenda for Monday, the 17th of December 2018

Agenda is Approximate and Tentative

8:00am - 8:30am  - Registration

8:30am - 9:35am - Motions in Limine:  The Under-Utilized Weapon  -  William R. Newman, Esq.

9:35am - 10:35am - Direct-Examination:  Fine-tuning your Skills   -  Keith D. Obert, Esq.

10:35am - 10:45am - Break

10:45am - 11:50am - Cross-Examination:  Knowing your Objectives  -  Mr. Newman

11:50am - 1:00pm - Lunch Break (on your own)

1:00pm  -  2:15pm -  Depositions from A to Z:  Preparing Clients for a Deposition, plus the Intricacies of Expert Witness Depositions  -  Mr. Obert

2:15pm -  2:20pm -  Break

2:20pm -  2:55pm - Effective Use of Visual Aids in Closing Argument  -  Mr. Newman

2:55pm - 3:00pm  -  Break

3:00pm - 4:00pm   -  The Ethics of Confidentiality:  What You May Not Know!  (ethics hour)  -  Mr. Newman

4:00pm - 5:00pm  -  *Bonus Ethics Hour  -  Mr. Newman