Seattle University Law School has
featured the fifth edition of PretrialAdvocacy: Planning, Analysis, and Strategy in its Our Scholars publication.
Pretrial Advocacy provides
an excellent conceptual and practical foundation for pretrial litigation for trial
lawyers, teachers and law students. This new edition is updated and has
expanded coverage of both criminal and civil pretrial practice. The focus
remains on federal and state litigation. Professional responsibility and
civility are emphasized throughout the text. Checklists of skills, techniques,
standards and ethics appear in each chapter.
Underpinning
the Pretrial Advocacy book is the
Confucian methodology of “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I
understand.” First, each of the Pretrial Advocacy’s fourteen chapters offers a comprehensive explanation of a core
litigation activity, from client interviewing, case theory development,
drafting pleadings and discovery requests, motions, pretrial preparation
through Alternative Dispute Resolution and pretrial readiness conferences.
Additionally, each chapter both covers ethical and legal boundaries as well as
provides a checklist for the particular pretrial activity under discussion.
Second,
Pretrial Advocacy enables the
students to see and remember. With
the streaming videos provided on the
password protected website, students can see and retain the information. For
example, they can watch experienced trial lawyers take and defend a deposition
and also use the deposition at trial.
Third and most importantly, students can learn litigation skills by
performing them. Unlike any other litigation books and materials on the
market, Pretrial Advocacy comes with
a complete set of materials, including 79 role-playing assignments, two case
files (complete with exhibits, witness statements, depositions, and so on) an
Actors’ Guide for the witnesses, and a Teacher’s Manual.
New in this
fifth edition are such topics as cultural competency essential to effective
pretrial preparation and litigation and the skills required to collaboratively
work in teams and strategies for conflict resolution
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