Crossexamination skills for law students book, 2009. Crossexamination crossexamination united states law civil procedure law general law. View a sample of the third edition using the readnow feature in cross examination. In this first article in a threepart series, excerpted from chapter 31 of their book crossexamination. This is quite simply the greatest book on crossexamination that i have ever come across and worth every penny of the hundreds of pounds that it will cost you to buy. Science and techniques, second edition now in its second edition, cross examination. Pd crossexamination skills for law students available in paperback. Exhaustive in its coverage at 744 pages, it addresses every area and nuance of cross examination. With authoritative guidance from larry pozner and roger dodd, the masters of cross examination dvd set gives attorneys the practical tools to unleash the power of constructive cross examination for better trial outcomes. Pozner and dodd s signature techniques and methodologies, which have brought them acclaim as the nation s leading experts on crossexamination, are illustrated with numerous new examples added specifically for the third edition. Pozner and dodd begin by quoting wigmore on the importance of crossexamination. The 3rd batch of 6 books in this series on the greatest philosophers by acclaimed. The chapter method of crossexamination chapter 2 pozner and dodd advocate that a lawyer must think of the crossexamination of any witness as a series of small discussions chapters on individual topics of importance to the theory of the case and not as a.
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