Important Techniques: The Expert Witness
Cross-examination of an expert witness falls into a class of its own. An expert can and often does testify to...
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Deciding Whether to Cross-Examine and When Not to Object
When opposing counsel states, "You may cross- examine," the lawyer is faced with an important decision: Should...
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Important Legal Techniques: Preparing a Witness for Cross-Examination
Refreshing Recollection Just as it is important for the attorney to prepare to cross-examine adverse...
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Important Legal Techniques: Preparing the Lay Witness
Importance of Preparation "The issue of a cause rarely depends upon a speech and is but seldom even affected...
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Important Legal Techniques: Preparing the Expert Witness
Introduction In present-day trials the use of expert opinion as evidence is more and more common and...
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Choosing a Bar Review Course
Law schools do not prepare students to take bar exams. At best, students are offered law courses, such as...
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Main Objectives and Legal Bounds of Cross-Examination
Main Objectives Cross-examination should always be conducted with a specific objective in view. The Supreme...
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Tackling Anxiety During Bar Exams
The discipline you have been developing in shifting your mindset about the bar exam, organizing your life,...
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Some Great Tips for Your Bar Exam Day
Get there on time: In most jurisdictions, you have pre-assigned seats. But if possible, request a seat by the...
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Reasons Not to Combine Two Bar Exams
When I am asked whether a student should take two (or more) bar exams, I answer, "NO." My answer is contrary...
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The Different Types of Bar Exams
Almost every jurisdiction has a bar exam, which must be passed as part of its admission criteria. Wisconsin is...
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Witness Impeachment Probabilities in a Legal Setting
When cross-examination develops facts and circumstances that go to the credibility of the witness, it is...
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Maintaining A Positive Perception of the Bar Exam
When we sit alone to study for the bar exam, many of us hear negative voices: "No, you can't." "It's...
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Popular Bar Review Courses and Resources
Below is a partial listing of the courses offered nationally and a sampling of these in New York and...
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Historical Progress and Purposes of Legal Cross-Examination
Evolution of Right to Cross-Examination Right to Jury Trial To understand the art of cross-examination,...
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Stopping the Cycle of Failure in Bar Exams
You may have taken the bar exam so often that you've given up hope of ever passing it. You may have tried...
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Overcoming Perceived and Real Bias in the Bar Exam
The challenge of staying in a "Yes I Can" mode is especially daunting for minority candidates. Throughout law...
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Common Tacticical Admonitions in Legal Cross-Examination
Questions to Avoid Of all the questions in the cross-examiner's vocabulary, none is more dangerous than...
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Learning to Keep Time on Your Side When Going for the Bar Exams
"I can’t" Maybe this is your first response to the idea of learning multiple areas of law, listening to...
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Techniques for Passing the Bar Exam
There are techniques to answering bar exam questions. After having read more than my share of essay, MBE and...
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Investigating Prospective Jurors
Challenge for Cause In California, counsel is permitted to examine each prospective juror to determine...
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Self-Discipline Tips for the Bar Exams
I give a bar exam lecture on organization. My thesis is that if you organize your life and study routine, a...
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Breaking the Bar Exam Barrier
Imagine yourself the day before the bar exam. You are too excited to sleep, but you make yourself do so...
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Proper Attitude and Appearance of Legal Counsel During Cross-Examination
First Impression Counsel's attitude and appearance are of the utmost importance in making his...
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How to Study for the Bar Exam
There was a student at my alma mater, who was notorious for sitting in the lunchroom all day, playing bridge....
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New York’s ‘Stop and Frisk’ Regimen Back on its Track for Now
After ordering the NYPD to immediately stop conducting its ‘stop and frisk’ program outside certain...
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How Blogging Influences My Life
Don't worry, this won't be one of those happy go lucky posts where I spew out all the great ways that the...
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Resume Strategies for Paralegal Job Applicants
Personal marketing is seventy percent of finding a job. Only thirty percent depends on actual background and...
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Paralegals as Law Office Administrators and Senior Legal Assistants
As law practices expand their use of paralegals, paralegals are assuming the supervisory roles as law office...
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