- Faculty:
- Philip Bogdanoff, Esq.
- Duration:
- 2 Hours 1 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Short Description:
- Where the Crawdads Sing is a novel that has sold over 15 million copies and has been created into a best-selling movie. In this murder mystery Catherine "Kya" Clark is accused of murdering Chase Andrews after their relationship ended. We will examine the trial by reviewing clips of this movie and discussing the trial tactics by the prosecutor and defense.
- Faculty:
- Robert Musante, Esq.
- Duration:
- 2 Hours 2 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Short Description:
- Taking high-quality adverse depositions is the most important teachable litigation skill. Taking a high-quality adverse deposition requires the conscientious application of an integrated set of logical cross-examination rules, the very set of rules that law schools should have offered to their students in a full-semester course, and litigation law firms should have taught their newbies (and their
- Faculty:
- Deborah Reid, Esq.
- Duration:
- 2 Hours 6 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Short Description:
- This seminar explains and illustrates the basics of copyright law in three major parts that follow the organization of Reid’s upcoming illustrated book, True Stories of Transformation + Infringement: Art + Copyright. The wellspring for the book and seminar are the colorful stories involving Andy Warhol, Prince, Roy Orbison, 2 Live Crew and Oscar Wilde told in copyright case law. Exhibits from...
- Faculty:
- Joel Oster, Esq.
- Duration:
- 2 Hours 9 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Short Description:
- From My Cousin Vinny to Lincoln Lawyer, from Atticus Finch to Lt. Kaffee, Hollywood lawyers have a lot to teach us about the Model Rules of Professional Conduct. Using the Hollywood storylines as a starting point, we dissect the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, and then apply them to real-life cases. As they would never disclaim in the movies, “all characters appearing in this class are ...
- Faculty:
- Alan Blumenfeld | Katherine James | Act of Communications | Anna Marie Thatcher
- Duration:
- 2:15
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Short Description:
- How many times have you thought you prepared a witness perfectly only to have that witness fail – either just a little, or completely and disastrously? Do your problem witnesses keep you awake at night? Do some witnesses affect YOUR performance? You are not alone. Every attorney knows exactly what a “star witness” looks like, acts like, and performs like. A star witness is...
- Faculty:
- Graham Thatcher | Brian T. Guthrie, Esq. | Anna Marie Thatcher | Alicia Garcia, Esq. | John M. Stuart, Esq. | Barry R. Vickrey, Esq.
- Duration:
- 2:19
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Short Description:
- In 1535 one lawyer chose personal conscience over public loyalty and so threatened those in power that they killed him! Some have called Sir Thomas More the first "modern man." He was certainly the quintessential Renaissance man ... lawyer, statesman, philosopher, linguist, raconteur, Chancellor of England ... and author of one of the great books of western civilization, Utopia. Despite all of that, Sir Thomas More was beheaded by King Henry VIII in 1535 for high treason.
- Faculty:
- Brian T. Guthrie, Esq. | Anna Marie Thatcher | T. Mychael Rambo | Marie A. Failinger, Esq. | Donald M. Lewis, Esq. | John M. Stuart, Esq.
- Duration:
- 2:38
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Short Description:
- May 17, 2019 marked the 65th Anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, which legally ended racial segregation in the schools of the United States. The lead attorney for the plaintiffs in the cases that, together, are now known as “Brown,” was Thurgood Marshall, a passionate and embattled civil rights lawyer. Thurgood Marshall is o
- Faculty:
- Graham Thatcher | Anna Marie Thatcher | Brian T. Guthrie, Esq. | Charles Abourezk, Esq. | Alicia Garcia, Esq. | John M. Stuart, Esq. | Barry R. Vickrey, Esq.
- Duration:
- 3:03
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Short Description:
- When Justice William O. Douglas retired from the United States Supreme Court in 1975, he had served for thirty-six years, longer than any other justice its history, and had helped to decide some of the most important cases in the nation’s history. He was an inveterate traveler, prolific writer, and popular speaker, who used his position to espouse his ideas on environmentalism and the Bill
- Faculty:
- Graham Thatcher | Anna Marie Thatcher | Brian T. Guthrie, Esq. | Barry R. Vickrey, Esq. | Charles Abourezk, Esq. | Alicia Garcia, Esq. | John M. Stuart, Esq.
- Duration:
- 3 Hours 5 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Short Description:
- A master of the courtroom stage, who possessed an uncanny understanding of human character, Clarence Darrow was arguably the greatest trial lawyer of the twentieth century. He was an adamant opponent of capital punishment and a passionate proponent of civil and human rights. Often called the "Attorney for the Damned," he fought for the underdog and took on criminal cases thought to be ho
- Faculty:
- Alan Blumenfeld | Katherine James | Act of Communications | Anna Marie Thatcher
- Duration:
- 3:14
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Short Description:
- The attorney is called upon to assume the tasks of writer, director and actor, but is usually only trained in the rules and procedures of the law. The Art of Advocacy: What Can Lawyers Learn From Actors℠ teaches lawyers how to translate ideas, opinions, research and facts of a trial or other professional presentation into live three-dimensional events. The program demonstrates...
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