You're not new to litigation, so you know the critical importance of building a strong argument using solid testimony and clear evidence. But what happens when you get to court? You can be completely prepared for your case, but if your evidence and expert testimony aren't presented effectively, it won't matter. Do you have the skills you need to make your support tools count? Get the most out of your evidence and testimony – and confidently refute your opponent – with the success strategies you'll learn here.

This distillation of some of the best strategies used by top litigators can easily be learned from the convenience of your office. Learn how to effectively present evidence, skillfully attack your opposition's evidence, get expert testimony admitted into court and much more. Order today!

1. Strategies for Working With Evidence at Trial
2. Attacking Opposing Evidence
3. Getting Scientific and Expert Testimony Admitted Into Evidence
4. Attacking Opposing Expert Testimony
5. Mock Examination and Cross Examination of Expert Witnesses
6. Ethics, Evidence and Experts
7. Evidence, Experts and Hearsay in the Courtroom

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1. STRATEGIES FOR WORKING WITH EVIDENCE AT TRIAL
   9:00 - 9:45, Stephen K. Christiansen
   1. How to Maximize Use of Evidence Rules
   2. Effective Motion Practice - Motions in Limine
   3. Effectively Using Evidence to Influence the Jury
   4. Introducing Evidence to Maximize Results
   5. Tactics for Using Discovery Answers During Trial
   6. Use of Innovative Exhibits at Trial
   7. Practice Skills: Case Studies and Examples in Getting Your Evidence Admitted
2. ATTACKING OPPOSING EVIDENCE
   9:45 - 10:30, Stephen K. Christiansen
   1. How to Block Admission of Evidence
   2. Strategies for Questioning the Validity of the Evidence to Persuade the Jury
   3. Practice Skills: Case Studies and Examples in Opposing Evidence
3. GETTING SCIENTIFIC AND EXPERT TESTIMONY ADMITTED INTO EVIDENCE
   10:45 - 11:45, Nathan D. Alder
   1. "Gatekeeping Obligations" in Federal Court
   2. "Gatekeeping Obligations" of Scientific and Expert Testimony in State Court
   3. Considerations for Plaintiff Counsel
   4. Considerations for Defense Counsel
   5. Impact of Daubert and Kumho Tire on Judges and Experts
   6. Planning Ahead to Gain Control Over When and How Daubert Challenges Will be Made
   7. How to Introduce Expert Testimony in Clear, Succinct Ways
   8. Qualifications of Experts
   9. Threshold the Expert Must Meet
   10. How to Show Research Verifying the Methodologies and Theories Your Experts Rely Upon
   11. Using Hypotheticals to Support Your Case
   12. Admissibility of Expert Reports
   13. Practice Skills: Case Studies and Examples in Getting Your Evidence Admitted
4. ATTACKING OPPOSING EXPERT TESTIMONY
   12:45 - 1:30, John F. Fay
   1. How to Block Admission of Opposing Expert Testimony
   2. Cross-Examining Opposing Experts - Questioning Techniques That Work
   3. Challenging the Expert's Evidence
   4. How to Illustrate the Invalidity of the Expert's Methodologies
5. MOCK EXAMINATION AND CROSS EXAMINATION OF EXPERT WITNESSES
   1:30 - 2:15, Grace S. Acosta
6. ETHICS, EVIDENCE AND EXPERTS
   2:30 - 3:30, Grace S. Acosta
   1. Confidentiality and Privileged Communications With Experts
   2. Work Product Doctrine
   3. Fees and the Expert Opinion
   4. Avoiding Conflicts of Interest
7. EVIDENCE, EXPERTS AND HEARSAY IN THE COURTROOM
   3:30 - 4:30, Grace S. Acosta
   1. The Hearsay Rule
   2. Hearsay Exclusions and Exceptions
   3. Admissibility of Hearsay Evidence
   4. Electronic Evidence and Hearsay

GRACE S. ACOSTA is a litigation attorney with the Salt Lake City law firm of Scalley Reading Bates Hansen & Rasmussen, P.C. Her practice areas include insurance defense, banking, employer workers compensation law, employment law, real estate, torts, appellate practice and domestic work. Ms. Acosta served as president of the Utah Minority Bar Association from 2009-2010 and currently sits as an ex-officio member of the Utah Bar Commission. She sits on the Utah Supreme Court Ethics Committee and hears bar complaints, and is also a judge pro tempe and hears small claims cases in Salt Lake City Small Claims Court. Ms. Acosta earned her B.S. degrees from Auburn University and her J.D. degree, with distinction, from the University of Nebraska School of Law.

NATHAN D. ALDER is a shareholder with Christensen & Jensen, P.C., in Salt Lake City, Utah. Based on years of high level experience in demanding cases, his wide ranging law practice has grown to include serious personal injury, wrongful death and insurance disputes, commercial litigation and business matters, professional and products liability, and licensing and administrative legal matters, among others. He represents both individuals and corporate entities. Mr. Alder has been named one of the top 75 lawyers in a five state region (Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming) by Super Lawyers, in addition to being recognized as one of Utah's top products liability lawyers. A court-rostered mediator, he occasionally mediates for the Utah ADR Services panel of neutrals. Mr. Alder is the immediate past chair of the nonprofit Utah Council on conflict resolution. In 2008-2009, he served as president of the Utah State Bar and was thereafter elected by his bar president colleagues to serve as president of the Western States Bar Conference beginning March 2012. Mr. Alder currently serves on two Utah Supreme Court advisory committees, as well as select national committees, including the ABA, TIPS, ALFA International and the J. Reuben Clark Law Society. He graduated from Utah State University, earned his J.D. and master's degree from Indiana University-Bloomington and thereafter returned to Utah to clerk for the Hon. J. Thomas Greene, U.S. District Court for the District of Utah. Mr. Alder currently serves on the advisory board for the College of Humanities & Social Sciences.

STEPHEN K. CHRISTIANSEN is an attorney with VanCott, Bagley, Cornwall & McCarthy. He tries cases and handles appeals in the state and federal courts. Mr. Christiansen earned his B.A. degree, magna cum laude, from Brigham Young University and his J.D. degree, summa cum laude, from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University. He is a member of the Utah and Idaho State bars and State Bar of Nevada, and is admitted in federal trial and appellate courts around the country.

JOHN F. FAY is a sole practitioner in Salt Lake City. Mr. Fay has extensive experience in personal injury litigation and in all civil law and motion departments, drafting a wide variety of supporting and opposing pleadings and the presentation of both pro and con oral arguments at bar. He is also an experienced litigator in both judge and jury trials, as well as more than 400 judicial, AAA, UM and UIM arbitration claims in areas including vehicle collisions; slip, trip and fall incidents; collapsing roofs; defective products; construction defects; insurance disputes; breach of contract actions; and general business litigation. Mr. Fay has written approximately 22 appellate briefs and has argued before California and Utah state appellate courts and the U.S. District Court of Appeals. He was previously named as a Utah Legal Elite, in personal injury law by Utah Business Magazine. Mr. Fay is a member of the Utah State Bar and the State Bar of California. He is also a member of the U.S. District Court for South and Central California and Utah, the Utah Association of Justice, Public Justice Foundation and the American Association of Justice (Board of Governors). Mr. Fay earned his B.S. degree from Merrimack College and his J.D. degree from Western State University School of Law.

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