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About Ronald H. Clark
Ronald H. Clark is a nationally known lecturer and author and Distinguished Practitioner in Residence at Seattle University Law School. Mr. Clark has lectured at over 40 national courses and for numerous state prosecutor and bar associations.
For 27 years, Mr. Clark was in the King County Prosecutor's office in Seattle, Washington, where he served as a senior deputy prosecutor, head of the trial teams and, for ten years, as the Chief Deputy of the Criminal Division, leading 115 attorneys.
As the Director of Training, Mr. Clark worked for the National College of District Attorneys. Later, as the Senior Training Counsel, Mr. Clark pioneered the first courses conducted at the National Advocacy Center when it opened its doors to state and local prosecutors and for the following six years.
Mr. Clark is a Distinguished Practitioner in Residence at Seattle University Law School where he has taught Comprehensive Trial Advocacy, Comprehensive Pretrial Advocacy, Essential Lawyering Skills and Visual Litigation and Today's Technology.
Mr. Clark has produced and written movies that accompany the Pretrial and Trial Advocacy books. His full-length movie, entitled the Freck Point Trial, is a trial advocacy training film featuring demonstrations of all phases of trial by veteran trial lawyers.
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Why go to the movies to learn trial advocacy strategies, techniques, and skills? First, trial work is theater; movies show trial advocates how to effectively deliver a message to an audience. Second, movies illustrate successful advocacy principles and techniques. Third, movies are a visual medium, showing how to impart to a jury the trial lawyer’s message with visuals. Fourth, movie clips can be used to illustrate ethical and legal boundaries that trial lawyers should not cross. Fifth, some movies are based on actual cases and show how to be successful in trial with a real-life examples. Sixth and lastly, movies are entertaining and that helps the viewer learn winning trial techniques.
With this ebook you can not only read about the trial advocacy movies but also you can also WATCH THE MOVIE CLIPS--just a click away.
Pretrial Advocay: Planning, Analysis, and Strategy, Fifth Edition provides an excellent conceptual and practical foundation for pretrial litigation for both teachers and students. Pretrial Advocay covers both criminal and civil pretrial practice, with a focus on federal and state litigation. Professional responsibilty and civility are emphasized through the text. Checklists of skills, techniques, and ethics, which appear in each chapter, as well as 79 assignments, designed for student role-play performances, allow for greater student comprehension.
Features
- New complete password-protected website (aspenadvocacybooks.com) containing:
- Streaming videos
- 79 assignments for role-play skills performances, such as drafting pleadings and taking and defending a deposition
- Drafting demand letters and mediation briefs with a step-by-step explanation of how to draft effective demand letters and mediation bries with examples
- Pleadings Chapter newly revised and enhanced
- Up-to-date Rules changes are incorporated
Roadways to Justice tells remarkable stories of selected cases, trials, and, above all else, quests for justice. The book argues that the criminal justice system can be changed, and it offers inspiration, practical solutions, and roadmaps for how to reform that system. This volume is ideal for anyone interested in understanding how the criminal justice system really works, and it is an indispensable handbook for the new wave of lawyers, lawmakers, and others who want to improve it.
Author Ronald H. Clark was a career prosecutor in King County, Washington, Senior Training Counsel at the National Advocacy Center in Columbia, South Carolina where state and local prosecutors were trained, and he is currently a Distinguished Practitioner in Residence at Seattle University Law School, where he teaches trial advocacy, pretrial advocacy, essential lawyering skills, and visual litigation and technology. With an insider’s perspective, Clark reflects on fifty-plus-years of struggles to reform the criminal justice system.
Jury selection can be a terrifying experience for even the most seasoned trial attorneys. Jury Selection Handbook: The Nuts and Bolts of Effective Jury Selection dissects the process and highlights the strategic choices available to trial attorneys at every step of the process. This book is intended for law students and fledgling lawyers who are acquiring their jury selection skills, as well as veteran trial lawyers who want to refresh and expand their approaches. The book provides practical guidance for how to prepare for jury selection; craft motions and responses to motions regarding voir dire; exercise challenges; make favorable impressions of counsel, the client, and the case; break the ice and question prospective jurors; and evaluate jurors and tap into hidden beliefs and pre-dispositions. The book can be adopted for law school trial advocacy courses and clinics as well as continuing legal education seminars. Online appendices provide examples of jury questionnaires, motions and responses to motions, and transcripts of a dozen complete jury selections in both federal and state courts and civil and criminal cases.
The online appendices can be found at http://caplaw.com/jury.
“It was a pleasure reading Jury Selection Handbook by Professor Clark and Mr. O'Toole. To begin with, it is a thorough treatment of the subject. The 14 substantive chapters touch on virtually every facet of the jury selection process. . . . In addition, the text goes far beyond the rudiments and exposes the reader to advanced techniques. . . . I found it to be at once comprehensive, sophisticated, and practical. . . . this is the single best short volume that I have read on jury selection. It would be a valuable addition to the library of any law student interested in litigation, a neophyte trial attorney, or even a counsel with a middling level of experience.” — Edward J. Imwinkelried, Professor of Law Emeritus, UC Davis School of Law
“Living up to its 'handbook' label, the text aims toward comprehensive coverage of the process and providing both a legal and practical foundation. . . . Throughout, the authors call out good advice in clear and simple terms. . . . Perhaps the area where the book most differentiates itself is through the use of constant examples and in providing a wealth of additional information for use in classrooms and continuing legal education programs. . . . the book provides a foundation grounded in practice, but points toward the importance of some more advanced questions.” — Dr. Ken Broda-Bahm, Persuasive Litigator
“Jury Selection Handbook is the most comprehensive analysis of jury selection in the marketplace and a 'must' read for every lawyer, regardless of experience. Ronald Clark and Thomas O’Toole are to be congratulated for their exhaustive discussion of every phase of voir dire, from its preparation, to the strategies behind successful voir dire, to the evaluation of jurors and to the legal tactics incidental to voir dire. The new lawyer will find comfort in the discussions on the basic rules and premises for jury selection; the veteran lawyer will enjoy the chapters on the subtleties and psychology behind voir dire. All will find the book a necessary addition to their legal library." — Judge Michael D. Marcus
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Pretrial Advocay: Planning, Analysis, and Strategy, Fifth Edition provides an excellent conceptual and practical foundation for pretrial litigation for both teachers and students. Pretrial Advocay covers both criminal and civil pretrial practice, with a focus on federal and state litigation. Professional responsibilty and civility are emphasized through the text. Checklists of skills, techniques, and ethics, which appear in each chapter, as well as 79 assignments, designed for student role-play performances, allow for greater student comprehension.
Features
- New complete password-protected website (aspenadvocacybooks.com) containing:
- Streaming videos
- 79 assignments for role-play skills performances, such as drafting pleadings and taking and defending a deposition
- Drafting demand letters and mediation briefs with a step-by-step explanation of how to draft effective demand letters and mediation bries with examples
- Pleadings Chapter newly revised and enhanced
- Up-to-date Rules changes are incorporated
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Updated throughout, the timely Third Edition provides checklists in each chapter as a useful teaching aid. Topical coverage has been expanded to include discussion of Internet interference during trial and the use of focus groups, trial simulations, and technology in trial preparation.
A leader in the field, Trial Advocacy offers:
- a thorough and lucid overview of the trial process
- balanced coverage of practice and theory
- informative discussion of how trial lawyers think and act
- how litigators use state-of-the-art technology
- trial persuasion strategies and techniques
- a thoughtful look at the ethical and legal boundaries of trial advocacy
More of what's new in the Third Edition:
- new coverage of bench-trial advocacy
- a comprehensive treatment of courtroom evidence
- how to satisfy the judge's expectations of counsel