Crafting Great Credibility Arguments and "The Cross-Examination of the Century"

MCLE Credits: 4.0
Ethics Credits Included: 0.0

Tuesday, October 11, 10:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. ET Live Webcast Live Telephone
MCLE Credit:	4.0 (Ethics: 0.0)
Live-Interactive Credit:	4.0 (all dates, all formats)
Designation Credit:	4.0 Trial Practice/Litigation (Designations Information)
Registration Fees:	Webcast: $229 Telephone: $249

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Why Attend?

Presented by Robert Musante—a nationally recognized teacher of deposition skills
Explore the logic that is essential to crafting credibility arguments in this practical and engaging seminar
Valuable for even the most experienced litigators

In every case, no matter the area of law, litigators attack—skillfully or otherwise—the credibility of their opponent’s evidence: a fact-witness’s observations, an expert’s opinion, a document, and/or real evidence. The ability to recognize and craft credibility arguments is crucial to successful litigation, yet few, if any, law schools or law firms know how to teach it. This presentation does so brilliantly … and entertainingly using video clips from the watched-by-tens-of-millions cross-examination conducted by legendary trial attorney F. Lee Bailey of Los Angeles police detective Mark [“I Found the Murderer’s Glove at O.J. Simpson’s Home”] Fuhrman. Measured by publicity and viewership, State of California vs. O.J. Simpson was rightly deemed the trial of the 20th century (and, thus far, it is unsurpassed in the 21st), with Bailey’s 3-day Q&A of Fuhrman unquestionably the centerpiece of that trial.

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Schedule

COURSE SCHEDULE (October 11) (Eastern Time)

10:00	Session 1 Francis Wellman’s “The Art of Cross-X” The universal and timeless logic of cross-examination Three profoundly important litigation truths Introduction of Fuhrman, Bailey, and Simpson case Word-hawking defined and extensively demonstrated Liar vs. Deceiver
12:00	Lunch Break
12:30	Session 2 Relationship of deposition to trial cross-examination Deceiver Arguments: Admission of a credibility flaw: disguising necessity as virtue Admission of a competence flaw: concealing blameworthy agenda Wit’s implausible claim re knowledge Wit’s implausible claim re motivation Wit’s implausible claim re practice Wit’s implausible claim re precedent Wit’s implausible claim info considered Wit’s implausible claim re reasoning Wit’s implausible claim re emotion Wit’s implausible claim re remembering Wit’s implausible characterization Wit’s implausible claim re skill, ineptitude, or luck Falsis in unam; falsis in omnibus
2:30	Adjourn

Q&A will be handled via chat room for Webcast attendees.
Q&A will be handled via e-mail for telephone seminar attendees.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Robert Musante / Alamo, CA

Robert Musante is the country’s foremost teacher of deposition cross-examination. He has taught the logic essential to taking great adverse depositions—of fact witnesses and experts—to more than 50,000 litigators in 44 states. He has made in-house presentations to the attorneys general of 11 states and to the partners and associates of 100+ litigation law firms. For more info, including thousands of rave reviews, visit robertmusante-depositions-cle-webinars.com.