On trial : lessons from a lifetime in the courtroom /

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Main Author: Miller, Henry G., 1931-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alm Pub., 2001
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The forty-four most common blunders of jury selection
  • 2. Opening-the twenty-seven steps
  • 3. Direct examination-thirty-one pertinent pointers
  • 4. Fifteen suggestions and four rules on how to survive cross-examination
  • 5. Some dos and don'ts for summation
  • 6. Settlement-six villains, three heroes, one play, and ten commandments
  • 7. Living with experts-twenty pungent proverbs and eighteen little gambits
  • 8. Nine secrets for living with judges
  • 9. Living with defeat
  • 10. Courage, or trying a case when the judge and jury hate you
  • 11. The ten most common transgressions against the manners and morals of advocates
  • 12. The art of survival-sixteen secrets