Hour One

• Voir Dire
• Selecting juries in different venues - East Coast vs. West Coast
• What to do when your opportunity to voir dire is limited or changed by the judge at trial
• What to do when you don’t get a voir dire.
• Have an opening statement that is even more detailed.
• Drafting questions for voir dire when the judge picks the jury
• Opening Statements
• How do you build connection with jury when you don’t have voir dire.

Hour Two

• Sequencing of witnesses
• Why it’s so important
• Challenges if the judge won’t let you sequence the way you want.
• Cross Exam
• Patience and preparation
• Listening to the witness’s answers and use them against them
• Setting up the summation
• Building the evidence
• Themes throughout

Hour 3

• Summation
• Structure of the summation
• How to use PowerPoint and other visual aids and keep the connection with the jury
• Asking the jury for big money
• How to do it in different venues. East coast vs. West Coast.
• You must believe it. “It I don’t buy it, I can’t sell it.”
• Why it’s so important.
• Building credibility
• Cashing in on credibility during closing.