Trial Essentials: Tips, Tactics, and New Approaches

Looking for effective, innovative ways to gain an advantage in trial?  Whether it’s your first trial or your tenth, having a broader understanding of how you can best present your evidence, handle witnesses, or bring people to your side will help you win.  Learn new approaches, tips, and tactics, and when to use them, so you can present your strongest case.  
 
Our panel will share its insights—from cases, big and small, litigated across the country—and explore ways to improve several core aspects of trial.  Moderated by Rob Carey, the only Arizona attorney in LawDragon’s 500 Leading Lawyers, this esteemed panel of top U.S. lawyers includes Jim Perdue of Houston's Perdue & Kidd, Bill Gibbs of Chicago's Corboy & Demetrio, Stuart Paynter of North Carolina's The Paynter Law Firm, and Bill Sowders of Phoenix's Gust Rosenfeld.  Join us as we cover 
• Effective storytelling 
• Opening statements do's and don'ts
• Improving your direct- and cross-examinations
• How to best handle expert witnesses, yours and theirs
• Closing arguments: best practices
• Other methods that can help you win

Chair: 
Robert Carey, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP

Faculty:
William T. Gibbs, Corboy & Demetrio
Stuart Paynter, Paynter Law
Jim Perdue, Perdue & Kidd
William Sowders, Gust Rosenfeld PLC