Description
Learn how to lead the jurors down your path to their verdict rather than your opponents path.
In addition to the fears about Opening Statements that lawyers know about public speaking captive audience trials are rare there are pitfalls lawyers dont see . . . and therefore fall into. Worse yet, lawyers often try to accomplish the wrong things with their Opening, thus squandering a great opportunity to make some real headway in framing their case for the layperson jurors. This presentation will help lawyers think a little less like lawyers and a lot more like jurors, and help them better set the filters and frames which would make it easier to lead the jurors down your path to their verdict rather than your opponents path.
Date: 2024-05-10 Start Time: 1:00 PM ET End Time: 2:05 PM ET
Learning Objectives
The Purpose of the Opening: What It Can and Cannot Do
• Setting the Right Frames and Filters for Your Jurors
• Setting the Right Tone
• Telling the Right Story
Story: How to Tell a Good One . . . and Avoid Timelines
• What Is a Story . . . and Why Isnt My Chronology a Story?
• Crafting and Telling Tell Your Story
• Visuals in the Opening
• Framing Your Case
How to Construct Your Opening Statement
• The Best • for Lack of a Better Word • Template
• Language and Imagery, Both Verbal and Visual
• Tone and Delivery
The Mini-Opening Before Voir Dire, Where Permitted
• The Purpose . . . and the Real Purpose
• Nearly Universal Lawyer Pitfalls
• The Right Way to Construct Your Mini-Opening
• Your Voir Dire/Jury Selection Strategy DoesnT Exist Independently of Your Opening, nor Vice Versa
CLE (Please check the Detailed Credit Information page for states that have already been approved) ,Additional credit may be available upon request. Contact Lorman at 866-352-9540 for further information.
Richard P. Matthews-Juryology
