Curriculum Vitae Publications, Presentations and Works in Progress Additional Activities Mental Health Advocacy Project Courses and Seminars Current Courses Intensive Trial Practice Workshop. This seminar teaches trial preparation, trial advocacy, and strategy through a variety of teaching techniques, including lectures and demonstrations, but primarily through simulated trial exercises. Topics include opening statements, witness preparation, direct and cross examination, expert witnesses, objections at trial, and closing argument. Practicing lawyers and judges are enlisted to provide students with lectures and critiques from varied perspectives. The course concludes with a simulated jury trial presided over by sitting state and federal court judges.
Evidence is a prerequisite.
Students taking the Intensive Trial Practice Workshop are not eligible to enroll in Trial Advocacy. Completion of this workshop partially satisfies one of the requirements for admission to the trial bar of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The student's grade is based on class participation. Law And The Mental Health System. The course is designed to help lawyers function effectively when issues of mental disability relate to legal issues.