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Trial Techniques and Trials, Twelfth Edition

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Authors
  • Thomas A. Mauet
  • Stephen D. Easton
Series / Aspen Coursebook Series
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Book length
690 pages
Publication Date
2024-09-15
Edition
Twelfth Edition
Description
Table of contents
Preface

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By far the most thorough and detailed of the books in the field, Trial Techniques and Trials is a comprehensive yet concise handbook that covers all aspects of the trial process and provides excellent examples illustrating strategies for opening statements, jury selection, direct- and cross-examination, exhibits, objections, and more. Extensive examples are clustered into three groups: personal injury, commercial, and criminal for ease in finding particular areas of trial practice. Tom Mauet and Steve Easton, renowned for their skills both as writers and trial attorneys, break the trial process down into its critical components for better and quicker comprehension by students and practicing attorneys who have little or no trial experience.

New to the Twelfth Edition:
  • Additional emphasis on the importance of relating to jurors, including grabbing—and keeping—the jurors’ attention
  • Updates to reflect changes in the Federal Rules of Evidence
  • Discussion of the occasional differences of opinion among effective trial lawyers about some trial tactics

Professors and students will benefit from:
  • Integrated discussion of the strategy and psychology of persuasion—particularly regarding jury selection, opening statements, and closing arguments
  • Numerous illustrations from tort cases, criminal cases, and commercial trials
  • Broad and flexible examples that allow readers to focus on either the plaintiff’s or the defendant’s side of the case—or both
  • Logical organization that follows the chronology of a trial process
  • A companion website with additional examples, a trial notebook, and other tools for trial lawyers
  • Video lectures about critical trial moments
  • Video demonstrations of effective trial advocacy, including a complete jury trial
  • Extensive supplemental materials available on the book’s Connected Casebook resource page
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Table of Contents
Summary of Contents

Contents
Preface to the Twelfth Edition 
Preface to the Eleventh Edition
Preface to the Tenth Edition
Website Information 

C H A P T E R 1
The Trial Process 

C H A P T E R 2
The Psychology of Persuasion

C H A P T E R 3
Jury Selection 

C H A P T E R 4
Opening Statements

C H A P T E R 5
Direct Examinations

C H A P T E R 6
Cross- Examinations 

C H A P T E R 7
Exhibits and Visual Aids

C H A P T E R 8
Experts 

C H A P T E R 9
Closing Arguments 

C H A P T E R 10
Evidentiary Objections 

C H A P T E R 11
Trial Preparation and Strategy

C H A P T E R 12
Bench Trials and Other Contested Hearings 

Index
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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.

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
Twelfth Edition
Publication date
2024-09-15
Copyright Year
2024
Pages
690
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9798892073356
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9798892073363
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9798892073387
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Subject
Trial Practice
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