Trials of the Century – Part II

Thursday, December 13, 2018 | 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

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Program Co-Instructors

Todd Winegar

Todd Winegar
CLE Speaker Leadership Training

Ryan Parker

Ryan Parker
Attorney at Law

  • Building on the of the popular Trials of the Century program, Todd Winegar is back with more great trials, more actual video and transcripts – all illustrating techniques to question, cross-examine and depose witnesses – THE major part of an attorney’s practice.

    • Watch entertaining top courtroom drama from the century’s most famous trials.
    • Learn techniques for examining, cross-examining, deposing and interviewing witnesses in court and deposition.
    • Observe world-class attorneys show you how to question a witness – and how not to.
    • Learn from the century’s greatest trial attorneys and adopt their examination techniques.

    Cases covered include:

    • The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
    • Paula Jones v. President Clinton
    • The Chicago Seven – Ethics from the century’s most “wild trial”
    • Ted Bundy – Bright law student / notorious serial killer

    This program will not be taped, you only have one chance to see it – Live!

    Live Program & Webcast: $395 for Members | $495 for Nonmembers

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  • 9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire – “The Fire that Changed America”

    • Time Magazine: “Steuer is the profession’s ablest exponent of the old legal saw for a weak case. . .”
    • The goal of every examination: Max Steuer so shamed the witness that he resigned from Congress and moved to Korea
    • Steuer’s genius – finding and exploiting “nuance” in the cracks of a case
    • Steuer’s key to cross-examination
    10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Paula Jones v. President Clinton

    • The only sitting president ever deposed
    • Watch the president’s grand jury testimony – world-class attorneys show how to depose a witness – and how not to
    • Dealing with a hyper-technical witness
    • Tying down evasive answers
    11:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Break
    11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Paula Jones v. President Clinton (continued)
    12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Lunch (on your own)
    1:30 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. Paula Jones v. President Clinton (concluded)
    2:15 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. The Chicago Seven— Ethics from the century’s most “wild trial”

    • Defense attorney sentenced to four years for contempt – ABA Model Rules
    • Ethics—The 13 easiest ways to meet your disciplinary committee
    • What insurers and bars say are the most common attorney ethical failures
    3:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Break
    3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Ted Bundy—Bright law student/notorious serial killer

    • How to spot the liar
    • Getting into the deponent’s psyche
    • Credibility in examinations
    • Watch Bundy’s death watch interview and warning to society

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  • CLE Credit
    NY:     7.0 Total: 6.0 Skills, 1.0 Ethics
    NJ:     7.2 Total: 6.2 General, 1.0 Ethics
    CA:     7.0 Total: 6.0 Skills, 1.0 Ethics
    PA:     6.0 Total: 5.0 General, 1.0 Ethics

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  • Sponsorship Opportunities are Available! Please Contact:
    Angie Avila, Membership Outreach and Sponsorships Manager | (212) 382-6608 | aavila@nycbar.org

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