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Materials in Trial Advocacy: Problems and Cases, Tenth Edition

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Authors
  • Thomas A. Mauet
  • Warren D. Wolfson
  • Stephen D. Easton
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Book length
696 pages
Publication Date
2024-02-01
Edition
Tenth Edition
Description
Table of contents
Preface

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Written by an author team with an extraordinary depth of experience in trial practice, Materials in Trial Advocacy, Tenth Edition immerses students in the work of a trial lawyer. Full 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 Tenth Edition:

  • A new civil case arising out of a dispute between an oil and gas producer and a landowner
  • A semester-long exercise that provides students with experience in both pretrial and trial advocacy
  • A new historic trial arising out of a riotous labor dispute that killed dozens

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
  • Connected Casebook, loaded with material students can use to supplement readings and in-class lectures


 

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About the authors
Thomas Mauet
Professor of Law

Professor Mauet directs the Trial Advocacy Program and teaches Evidence, Pretrial Litigation, and Trial Advocacy. For ten years, Professor Mauet practiced as a trial lawyer in Chicago. He was a prosecutor with the Cook County State's Attorney and the United States Attorney offices. He was a commercial litigator and specialized in medical negligence litigation with the firm of Hinshaw & Culbertson. During these years, he also was an adjunct faculty member at Loyola and Chicago-Kent law schools, teaching criminal law and trial advocacy.

Professor Mauet is a leading authority on trials. His latest book is Trials: Strategy, Skills, and the New Powers of Presentation. His other books include: Trial Techniques (6th ed.), Materials in Trial Advocacy (5th ed.), Pretrial (6th ed.), and Trial Evidence (3rd ed.), all published by Aspen Publishing. Trial Techniques is the leading text in the field and has Canadian, French, New Zealand, Australian, and Chinese editions. Professor Mauet was an Arizona Superior Court Judge pro tem in 1987–1988 and in 1988–1989 taught at George Washington University as the Howrey Professor of Trial Advocacy. He has also served as a visiting faculty member at Harvard Law School’s trial advocacy program and at Washington University. He is a co-founder of the Arizona College of Trial Advocacy. He is a former regional director of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) and has taught in numerous NITA programs throughout the United States since 1976.

Professor Mauet’s research interests center on the application of social science research, particularly in psychology and communications, to the jury trial process.

Warren D. Wolfson
Judge
DePaul University College of Law

Judge Warren D. Wolfson joined the DePaul University College of Law as interim dean in August 2009. He brings to the deanship a wealth of expertise garnered throughout a legal career that includes 33 years on the bench and extensive academic experience. He was appointed to the Circuit Court of Cook County in 1975, elected to a full term in 1976, and retained in that position for five consecutive terms. In 1994, he was assigned to the Illinois Appellate Court, 1st District, where he served until joining DePaul. Prior to his career on the bench, he spent 18 years in criminal defense practice.

Judge Wolfson, co-author of Trial Evidence (4th ed., Aspen Publishing 2009) and Materials in Trial Advocacy (6th ed., Aspen Publishing 2007), established and directed the highly respected trial advocacy program at Chicago-Kent College of Law from 1971 to 2009. During that time he also taught evidence and an advanced evidence seminar. Before joining Chicago-Kent, Judge Wolfson taught trial advocacy for 15 years at the University of Chicago and lectured for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.

Stephen Easton
Dean
University of Wyoming College of Law

Stephen D. Easton was named dean of the University of Wyoming College of Law on July 1, 2009. Easton’s research, writing, and speaking focus on expert witnesses, effective trial advocacy, and professional responsibility (ethics). He is the author of How to Win Jury Trials: Building Credibility with Judges and Jurors, a handbook for trial attorneys. He is a popular continuing legal education speaker who has been invited to speak to groups of practicing trial attorneys in dozens of states.

Easton was previously the C.A. Leedy Professor of Law at the University of Missouri, where he won several university and national teaching and writing awards, including the Pound Civil Justice Institute Richard S. Jacobson Award for Excellence in Teaching Trial Advocacy, the University of Missouri’s William T. Kemper Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching, the American Inns of Court Warren E. Burger Writing Prize, and Mizzou’s Excellence in Education and Golden Chalk Awards.

In law school, Easton was associate managing editor of the Stanford Law Review and president of the Stanford Law Forum. Before starting his teaching career, he was a law clerk to The Honorable Joseph T. Sneed of the United States Court of Appeals in San Francisco, California; an associate and partner with Pearce & Durick in Bismarck, North Dakota; and the United States Attorney for the District of North Dakota in Fargo and Bismarck, North Dakota.
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Edition
Tenth Edition
Publication date
2024-02-01
Copyright Year
2024
Pages
696
Print + eBook
9781543857993
eBook
9798889069539
LLPOD
9798892070454
Audiobook Add-On (eBook Required)
9798894119649
eBook + Audiobook
9798899634963
Print + eBook + Audiobook
9798899644320
Subject
Trial Practice
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