The critical skills to most effectively deliver cross-examination are: leading questions only, one new fact per question, using only present tense, using your hand to control the witness, creating space, effectively using a flip chart to anchor points, bringing the jury in, and closing through cross-examination.

Classes are limited to six participants.

We will be learning and practicing these skills through the use of three chapters of cross-examination.

There will be three Zoom prep sessions to practice the scripts.

The goal of witness prep is to teach your witness how to be the best witness they can be. To do this they must learn how to access the images/pictures in their mind so that they can transport themselves and the jury back in time to relive the events. We MUST get the STORY before we can effectively tell it, otherwise, we are just guessing.

Dan will demonstrate how to transport your client so you can get the story. And then how to help your client tell his/her story so the jury can experience it. Every participant will take a turn being the witness and the questioning lawyer.

CONNECTION is the not-so-secret sauce of every big verdict/great trial lawyer. It is not an art, it is not something some people are born with and others are not. Connecting is a skill that can be learned and mastered. Like all complex skills that one is seeking to learn and master, it has to be broken down into its component parts, its micro-skills, which have to be identified, isolated, and practiced. The micro-skills of connection are; eye contact, emotional state control(facial expressions) voice control, hand movement/gestures, body movement, glance control, word choice, creating space, and being KIND.

We will be learning, practicing, and mastering these skills in the context of opening statement which will also include mastering the use of visuals.

Classes are limited to five participants. There will be three Zoom prep sessions to practice.