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Our award-winning Advocacy Toolkit!
CLEBC’s award-winning Advocacy Toolkit is designed to assist lawyers with limited recent court experience. The Advocacy Toolkit follows a single fact pattern and features short videos demonstrating effective and ineffective examples of 10 essential oral advocacy skills. Each video is annotated with commentary and explanations on how to make a more effective oral presentation. The skills demonstrated include:
- theory of the case
- opening
- chambers applications
- examination for discovery
- direct examination
- cross-examination
- refreshing memory
- objections
- impeaching the witness through prior inconsistent statement
- closing