Advanced Trial Practice

This course will be to help students learn to recognize and anticipate a large number of important evidentiary issues which can arise during a trial, and to help them learn how to deal with the issues when they arise. Students will perform direct and cross examinations, opening and closing statements and voir dire. Students will be expected to write brief motions in limine and short memoranda on evidentiary issues to learn to present concise persuasive memoranda to a court before and during trial.