Trial Advocacy: Effective Oratory

This manual offers practical, useful solutions and insights into human factors, linguistics, neuroscience, gesture studies, and sports psychology. These techniques will transform any attorney into a more confident speaker, whether addressing colleagues in a conference room, counseling clients in a boardroom, or presenting a CLE in a ballroom. It offers tips on bringing the presentation off of one's notes and using direct eye contact,and answers such questions as: "How do I channel nervous energy into dynamic delivery?" "What is a reliable way to remember what I want to say?" "How do I stop saying "um" and think in silence instead?" and "Why is gesturing so important?"

By the authors of The Articulate Advocate, this book addresses public speaking for lawyers generally.

Written with a small dose of history and background, the majority of this book is a personal laboratory for improving preparation for any oral communication, achieving vocal success, enhancing body language techniques, and expressing the right emotion. This book covers oral communication skills for all aspects of practice. It's loaded with tips and exercises.

shows the reader how to convey information in a cogent, persuasive way to decision-makers who make the final call. In doing so it utilizes portions of famous real-life court transcripts and television scripts, as well as a one-hour DVD with snippets of material from Emmy Award winning actor Michael Badalucco.

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