Advanced Trial Advocacy

Course Number:Law 288A
Hours:3
Course Type:Upper-Level
Writing Requirement:None
Final Exam?:No
Description:
This course will focus on enhancing trial skills while emphasizing substantive issues, cases and problems. Topics to be covered will include opening statements, direct and cross-examination, summation, practical trial evidence, pre-trial conferences and hearings, dealing with complex cases, and the tactics and strategies of trial by judge and by jury. There will be three hour weekly sessions as well as one weekend session with classes Friday evening, Saturday, and Sunday, January 14-16. Prerequisites: Evidence and Trial Advocacy.