Recommended Titles and Treatises
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Trial Practice
The how-to-win trial manual
674 pages. Updated by new edition.
Ralph Adam Fine’s The How-To-Win Trial Manual shows you how to win by using your most powerful tool: The jury’s belief that you, the lawyer, know the “truth” of the case. He also shows you how to ask questions on both direct-examination and cross-examination in such a way so the jury will know the answers before the witnesses (whether layman or expert) respond. Simply put, if you phrase your questions so that the jury answers them the way you want before your witnesses answer and irrespective of what your adversary’s witnesses may say on cross-examination, you will win.