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Cross-Examination Handbook: Persuasion, Strategies and Techniques Second Edition (Wolters Kluwer 2014) explains how to take control in cross-examination. It is your turn to testify. All the essential skills and strategies you need are covered. And, the Handbook provides step-by-step instruction combined with outstanding examples from illustrious cases such as the John Scopes, Enron, Senator Stevens and O. J. Simpson trials.

Cross-examination skills training assignments for two criminal and two civil cases are provided for use in law school classes and professional skills development CLE workshops.

SUMMARY OF CONTENTS:

1. Introduction to Book, CD, & Website
2. Purposes of Cross & the Total Trial Approach
3. The Content & Concession-Seeking Cross
4. Constructing the Cross: Your Chance to Testify
5. Impeachment Cross: Reliability
6. Impeachment Cross: Report
7. Impeachment Cross: Reporter
8. Character & Conduct in Trial
9. Witness Control: Strategies & Techniques
10. Preparing the Winning Cross-Examination
11. Cross-Examining Expert Witnesses
12. Forgetters, Perjurers, Adverse Witnesses, Deponents, & More
13. Ethical & Legal Boundaries of Cross
14. Cases & Assignments

CD in pocket of back cover: Case Files for two civil & two criminal cases

TEACHER’S MANUAL (100 pages) with Actors’ Guide on CD with instructions for witnesses who will be subject to cross-examinations.

Here is a sample review of Cross-Examination Handbook: “Having tried dozens of cases and having conducted hundreds of cross-examinations, I can say that this book will not only be something I review as part of trial preparation but is also a book to be given to new lawyers in our office. For years I have carved out ‘thinking time’ in my trial preparation to review McElhaney’s Trial Notebook. I have now added this terrific book by Clark, Dekle and Bailey.“ Randy J. Cox, Boone Karlberg P.C., Missoula, Montana