MOOT COURT TRAINING
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HOW TO LAWYERING IN FRONT OF JURY AND JUDGES?
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Know your audience: age, gender, occupation, what will appeal to them, what will offend them, put yourself into your audience’s shoes to consider what they will want to hear ¢ 2. A strong opening statement: summarize the case in a compelling way
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CALDER V. JONES
SIFT Law Jie Huang
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Have a theme: Simple, easy-to-understand, and familiar words and phrases, use it throughout the trial: the moral foundation of the case. Use less than three themes Know the other side’s theme
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Show; do not tell.
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speak in a conclusory way but in a convincing manner Not impose your beliefs Offer concrete, vivid details: tell story and let the audience decide on their own Establish clean story lines. Leave out needless details, places, dates, and history Use specific , rather than vague or general words
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the trial, lawyers may consider to create a storyboard with important facts in chronological order and themes to tell the story during trial. ¢ Action is critical to a good story. This is why trail lawyers should focus on the people.
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reach for drama, metaphor, voice, gesture, persona, myth, and other expressive resources of the storyteller's art to give authority to their accounts. appropriate emotion
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Know the case
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skip over weaker arguments Preparation is the key to persuasion
Being focused
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notes Present arguments illogically, jumping from issue to issue, will lose your audience Establish a speaking outline
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Be eloquent All about communication, select your words carefully Use rhetorical questions and analogies to make your