Lawyers and clients today devote enormous time, effort and expense to discovery. More often than not, discovery, and not trial, is the central battleground of a case. This concise handbook describes the problems that civil litigators encounter most frequently in pretrial discovery and presents suggestions and strategies for solving these problems.

This book covers twelve characteristics of a winning argument and presents the rudiments and sophisticated levels of persuasion based upon ancient and modern techniques. In addition to the practical, clear instructions, the book includes colorful anecdotes and examples that illustrate real-life situations and apply to your practice. It also examines the origin of the winning strategies.

The Rules of Evidence are one thing. The mechanics of correctly eliciting facts in the heat of trial can be quite another. The authors give you trial-proven sequences of questions that translate the Rules of Evidence into examinations that will correctly prove facts, and are easily molded to your specific case.

Practicing lawyers, judges, and law professors draw from their experience to discuss ethical issues that have concerned them in their practice and provide practical advice on solving these issues. The sections of this program address: candor and truth; the client-lawyer relationship; conflicts; privilege and confidentiality; Model Rule 4.2; and more.

Three experienced trial lawyers show you how to develop a persuasive argument tailored to the situation at hand, built on a solid foundation of credibility, reason and evidence, powered with engaging emotion, and delivered in an appealing way. Using practical examples to illustrate the principles of effective argument, they show you how to analyze the elements and draw them all together into a convincing whole.