Learn how to organize and present your closing argument to maximize its effect on the jury.
This course reviews the right tactics and strategies to use when crafting and delivering a great closing argument. Explore cutting through a lot of conventional but wrong wisdom. Tour an overall approach to shaping the closing by telling your client’s case story verbally and visually. From earning and keeping juror attention to speaking and stagecraft techniques that create moments of impact, from language to use and words to avoid, this material will elevate your understanding of how to make the closing argument right.
Agenda
- Storytelling in a Nutshell
- The Five Rights of Closing Arguments
- The 10,000 Wrongs of Closing Arguments
- Visuals and Slides: Their Necessity; Breaking the Powerpoint® Defaults, and Creating Good Visuals
- Jury Instructions: The Right Role in Your Closing
- Jury Verdict Form: Essential yet Largely Ignored