Voir Dire and Opening Argument. Volume I, Trying Cases to Win.
Description (3900 characters maximum): Originally published: New
York: Aspen Publishers, 1991. Reprinted 2013 by The Lawbook
Exchange, Ltd. xv, 685 pp. The trial process is the sum of its
parts-opening argument, direct and cross examination, and
summation. In Trying Cases to Win, nationally known trial lawyer
Herbert J. Stern provides an overall blueprint for conduct in the
courtroom as he guides the reader through each of these segments.
Rather than a collection of anecdotal war stories from various
trials, Stern outlines the nuts and bolts of the right-and
wrong-approach, processes and strategies for every component needed
for trial success. Each volume is also available separately.
In this volume, Voir Dire and Opening Argument, Stern describes
tactics for the voir dire process and the construction and delivery
of a successful opening to lay the foundation for the overall
argument.
Contents:
1. Introduction;
2. Rule I: Personal Advocacy;
3. Rule II: One Central Theme;
4. Rule II: Make the Case Bigger than its Facts;
5. The Four Laws: Primacy, Recency, Frequency and Vividness;
6. Opening Argument-Not Opening Statement;
7. Problems to Confront in Openings;
8. The Form of the Opening;
9. Final Considerations for Opening;
10. Edward Bennett Williams Opens;
11. Openings in Nonjury Trials;
12. Applications of the Principles to a Case;
13. The Colonial Pipeline Case;
14. Jury Voir Dire;
15. Voir Dire in Two Actual Cases;
16. Conclusion,
Appendix A: United States v. Weber-Opening for the Government;
Appendix B: United States v. Weber-Opening for the Defense;
Index. Author Bio (3900 characters maximum): Herbert J. Stern is a
highly regarded trial lawyer and accomplished teacher of trial
techniques. A partner and founding member in the New Jersey law
firm of Stern & Kilcullen, Stern is a former Federal Judge,
having served as United States district judge for the District of
New Jersey from 1974 to 1987. He established his reputation as an
advocate while serving as a trial attorney with the Organized Crime
and Racketeering Section of the United States Department of Justice
from 1965 to 1969 and as United States attorney for the District of
New Jersey from 1970 to 1974 when he won a national reputation for
unprecedented convictions of numerous public officials. He was
founder and Co-Director of the Advocacy Institute at the University
of Virginia School of Law from 1980 to the present. He was Special
Counsel for Hon. Lawrence Walsh, Independent Counsel, Iran-Contra
Prosecution, 1988. Judge Stern was the subject of the book, Tiger
in the Court (Chicago: Playboy Press, 1973). He is the author of
Judgment in Berlin (New York: Universe Books, 1984) which was made
into a major motion picture with Sean Penn, and Martin Sheen
playing Judge Stern; and, most recently, Diary of a DA: The True
Story of the Prosecutor Who Took On the Mob, Fought Corruption, and
Won (New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2012). Review 1 (3900
characters maximum): ... a crowning achievement in a career devoted
to helping all lawyers, from beginners to veterans, become more
knowledgeable in the art of advocacy. Source: -- Arthur J.
Greenbaum, Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, PC, New York, NY
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