Your witness
Subtitle: lessons on cross-examination and life from great Chicago trial lawyers
By: edited by Steven F. Molo and James R. Figliulo
Publisher: Law Bulletin; Law Bulletin Publishing
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780910095099
Subjects: Cross-examination; Trial practice
Notes: "Foreword by Scott Turow"--Jacket.
Table of contents: title: 1. Binyon's, Plato, Jack Sprat & Frank / Thomas Anthony Durkin; title: 2. Whacks at the quacks / Don H. Reuben; title: 3. The obvious isn't always / Robert F. Coleman; title: 4. "Old school" cross-examination / R. Eugene Pincham; title: 5. Eight lessons from a lifetime at 26th Street / Sam Adam; title: 6. Preparation, watching, and listening / Robert W. Tarun; title: 7. Digging deep / Charles B. Sklarsky; title: 8. For effective cross-examination, use others / Gordon B. Nash, Jr.; title: 9. Winging it / Michael W. Coffield; title: 10. Taking the witness cold / George N. Leighton; title: 11. Knowing when to stop / James S. Montana, Jr.; title: 12. The psychology of the witness / Marc W. Martin; title: 13. Cross-examination and jury ego / Peter C. John; title: 14. Setting the table / Patrick A. Tuite; title: 15. Keeping the goal of cross-examination in mind / Walter Jones, Jr.; title: 16. Life is short : take a chance / Chris Gair; title: 17. Going out on a limb / James R. Figliulo; title: 18. The language of cross-examination : use k-words / Donald G. Kempf, Jr.; title: 19. Cross-examining the liar / Dan K. Webb; title: 20. Simpler is better / Lorna Propes; title: 21. Five good ideas from a cross-examination heretic / Terence F. MacCarthy; title: 22. Crossing an expert on everything except his opinion / Thomas M. Durkin; title: 23. Taking on a Nobel Prize winner / Charles W. Douglas; title: 24. Doing your homework on the expert / James D. Montgomery; title: 25. When the witness is an advocate / Robert A. Clifford; title: 26. Different strokes for different experts / William Kunkle; title: 27. Attacking experts : bias and books should not be overlooked / Edward L. Foote; title: 28. Expert depositions : who needs 'em! / Michael T. Hannafan; title: 29. Dead men sometimes do tell tales / Michael J. Morrissey; title: 30. Cross-examination of the catastrophically injured plaintiff / C. Barry Montgomery; title: 31. Sometimes, it's the whole show / Jo-Anne Wolfson; title: 32. Advance your theory through cross-examination / Matthias A. Lydon; title: 33. Cross-examination as storytelling / Steven P. Handler; title: 34. Asking the right and the wrong questions / Richard A. Halprin; title: 35. Credibility : both sides of the coin / Thomas M. Crisham; title: 36. The little things can mean a lot / Michael D. Monico; title: 37. Whose witness is it anyway? / Steven F. Molo; title: 38. Crossing the color line : and taking a step forward / Donald Hubert; title: 39. Attacking the message as well as the messenger / Raymond J. Smith; title: 40. Drama on cross-examination / Jeffrey E. Stone; title: 41. Crossing with technology / Robert L. Byman; title: 42. Charting an effective cross-examination / Philip S. Beck; title: 43. Arrogance : my favorite sin / Anton R. Valukas; title: 44. Cross examination before direct examination / Patricia Bobb; title: 45. When an agent comes off his paper / Allan A. Ackerman; title: 46. Expecting the unexpected / Thomas M. Breen; title: 47. Success + failure = experience / Vincent J. Connelly; title: 48. Unconventional cross-examination / Manuel Sanchez; title: 49. The most dangerous game / William J. Martin; title: 50 Keep it real / Thomas A. Demetrio.