2008 Winner of ACLEA's Top Award for
Professional Excellence

Welcome to the Winning at Trial website. Here you will find a variety of resources to help you with building your trial advocacy skills as well as excerpts of an innovative trial advocacy textbook, Winning at Trial, published by the National Institute of Trial Advocacy.

The book won the prestigious ACLEA award for Professional Excellence when it was selected the best book out of 300 legal publications. ACLEA said that "Winning at Trial pushes the envelope in multi-media publications by including a DVD . . . . Standing alone, the book covers an impressive amount of ground . . . . The DVD full of computer animations, digital evidence, and video footage of focus group deliberations and well-known trials adds an entirely new dimension."

It has also been praised by major law schools as the "best textbook" (University of Texas) and "an enormously instructive text for law students and and an invaluable resource for the experienced trial lawyer" (University of Tennessee).

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The Only Book that Teaches Trial Skills by Analyzing Real Trials

Winning at Trial analyzes transcripts of civil and criminal trials to teach memorable lessons.

It also contains over 3 hours of selected excerpts from the O. J. Simpson trial on 2 DVDs to teach skills applicable for both civil & criminal attorneys.

To the right are excerpts from the two DVDs. More excerpts from the book can be found here.
 

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Trial Advocacy Resources

Here are a few links to resources for trial lawyers that I have found helpful to develop your trial advocacy skills:

• Go to DecisionQuest.com and click on LITIGATION LIBRARY and then select "Articles" to find insightful articles on jury selection and trial strategies.
• For a wealth of information about Supreme Court decisions, statues, and legal citation, go to Cornell University Law School's Legal Information Institute.
• To view transcripts and summaries of famous trials, go to the University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Law's collection of Famous Trials.
• For information on current trials and other important legal news, go to Jurist Legal News & Research hosted by The University of Pittsburgh School of Law.

Trial Advocacy Blog

Here you will find a blog of trial skills tips and links to trial advocacy resources. You may also contact me regarding Winning at Trial or questions you have about trial advocacy.