McElhaney's Trial Notebook, Fourth Edition

James Willson McElhaney

ISBN 10: 1590315030 / ISBN 13: 9781590315033

Published by American Bar Association, US, 2005

About this Item

Trial Notebook offers hundreds of techniques and tactics for every stage of a trial's progress in spare, lively, memorable prose. You get strategies grounded in actual courtroom experience that will improve the effectiveness of your advocacy.

Seller Inventory # LU-9781590315033

Bibliographic Details

• Title: McElhaney's Trial Notebook, Fourth Edition
• Publisher: American Bar Association, US
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1590315030
• ISBN 13: 9781590315033
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 4th Edition
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 6.1W x 1.54H x 9.1D inches 6.1 inches width by 1.54 inches height by 9.1 inches depth

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Synopsis

Expanded, updated, and revised by the author, this edition of Trial Notebook includes 30 years of James McElhaney’s clear, graceful, and entertaining writing. Nearly a third larger than the previous edition, the book includes 90 chapters that cover every stage of trial. Topics include:

• preparation
• humanizing the client
• rules of evidence
• examining witnesses
• being persuasive; and
• closing arguments.

As a practitioner and professor, author James McElhaney knows his subject better than anyone and he executes eloquently the responsibility of passing on the art and science of trial advocacy. Used again and again by thousands of trial lawyers, Trial Notebook is certain to improve the effectiveness of your advocacy.

About the Author

Copyright © 2005 by James W. McElhaney. All rights reserved. Mr. McElhaney is the Baker & Hostetler Distinguished Scholar in Trial Practice at Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Joseph C. Hutcheson Distinguished Lecturer in Trial Adovcacy at South Texas College of Law in Houston, Texas.