Civil Procedure

This valuable guide will help you understand effective voir dire and jury selection strategies and adapt them to the unique circumstances you face in your trial jurisdiction.

Author Trey Cox presents seven principles for communicating effectively with a jury. Implementing these practical techniques through each phrase of trial will help you connect with the jury and direct and hold a jury's attention where you want it.

The book shows trial lawyers how to use concepts from theater to persuade & motivate. He describes what practitioners can learn from actors about their manner, voice projection, & behavior.

Criminal, civil, and grand juries have disappeared from the American legal system. Over time, despite their significant presence in the Constitution, juries have been robbed of their power by the federal government and the states. For example, leveraging harsher criminal penalties, executive officials have forced criminal defendants into plea bargains, eliminating juries. Capping money awards, legislatures have stripped juries of their power to fix damages. Ordering summary judgment, judges dispose of civil cases without sending them to a jury. This is not what the founders intended.

Bringing together legal strategy, psychology, and persuasion theory, this book offers a fresh approach to trial preparation, one that focuses on how jurors think.