Begin strong and add drama to your first paragraph to hook the jury into your words immediately. In this post are some examples of oral presentations with dramatic openings.

Do not waste the power of the opening moments. Get your audience involved immediately. Let them know you won’t waste their time. Their attention naturally high, they are spending the...

No one ever sold an idea by boring the audience. Our most important product is human attention. Without the attention of the jurors, your message is lost. A good part...

I love Steve Jobs. Not because he was the CEO of Apple or a billionaire or he dresses cool in black turtlenecks and jeans. Nor for his products, since I...

Below is Orin Kerr writing in The Volokh Conspiracy blog on law school courses. I am glad to see that evidence is voted the most useful, but can’t understand how...

Here are some useful quotes from jurors in the MS-13 gang trial in San Francisco federal court as published in The Recorder. Forget the trial advocacy books, and seminar speakers...

here is a good lesson detailed by Janet Maslin in her review of "Bed" by David Whitehouse. In the New York Times, Maslin, one of our more perceptive book reviewers,...

Yesterday was a slow day, and while flipping channels, I stumbled across "The Zero Effect." I enjoyed the film in its all-too-short theatrical release about thirteen years ago, and enjoyed...

The three men, known collectively as the West Memphis 3, were convicted of killing three 8-year-old cub scouts. These were not ordinary killings, but were labeled satanic because the naked...

Yogi Berra allegedly said: "You can observe a lot just by watching." Brilliant, if he said that intentionally. Once the quote became famous, he embraced it and wrote a book...