Materials in Trial Advocacy (Aspen Coursebook)

Book Synopsis: Buy a new version of this textbook and receive access to the Connected eBook with Study Center on Casebook Connect, including lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabilities. Access also includes practice questions, an outline tool, and other helpful resources. Connected eBooks provide what you need most to be successful in your law school classes. Written by an author team with an extraordinary depth of experience in trial practice, Materials in Trial Advocacy, Ninth Edition immerses students in the work of a trial lawyer. Actual cases and accompanying files elicit the kinds of challenges and issues that frequently play out in the trial setting. Organized to parallel the stages of a trial, each chapter contains both civil and criminal problems, which are presented at gradually increasing levels of complexity.

New to the Ninth Edition: Four new historic trials (three criminal and one civil) that give students the chance to try a case based upon actual events. Overview of suggestions for conducting trials based on historic events. Reduced book size, due to moving of Chapter 7 files to website, without removal of any materials.

Professors and students will benefit from:

• Realistic problems that present students with real world evidentiary and tactical issues
• Robust trial files that challenge students to make strategic and tactical decisions to best advance their client's cases
• Comprehensive coverage of all aspects of trial practice, from voir dire to closing argument
• An online resources website loaded with material students can use to supplement readings and in-class lectures