Agenda / Content Covered

1. VOIR DIRE AND JURY SELECTION STRATEGIES
   9:00 - 10:00, Sean Antone Hunt
   1. Preparing for Jury Selection - Researching Your "Target Audience"
      (Venue, Juror Pool Demographics, Creating Your "Ideal Juror," Drafting Surveys/Questionnaires, etc.)
   2. Preparing the Pre-Trial Order
   3. Introducing Your Case During Jury Selection
   4. Bringing to the Surface and Overcoming Juror and Judicial Biases
   5. Reading the Vital Non-Verbal Signals Jurors are Sending
   6. Peremptory and For-Cause Challenge Tactics
2. EFFECTIVE EXHIBITS AND COURTROOM TECHNOLOGY
   10:15 - 11:30, Sean Antone Hunt
   1. Overcoming Fear and Confronting Technology
   2. Preparing for the Digital Trial
      1. Digital Case Storage and Organization
      2. Authentication of Documents
      3. Document/Exhibit Organization
      4. Preparing the Courtroom and Conditioning the Jury
      5. Blending Technology Use Into Your Presentation for Seamless Delivery
   3. Choosing the Right Method and Form of Exhibit
      (Physical vs. Image; Actual vs. Demonstrative; Budget; Setting; Venue; Subject Matter; Order of Proof; Presenter's Style and Preferences; Comfort Level with Technology)
   4. Does Each of Your Exhibits Pass the 8-Point Test?
   5. What Can the Opposing Counsel do with the Evidence I Introduce?
   6. Video Depositions (Prior Testimony)
      1. Advantages and Pitfalls
      2. When to Use
      3. Rules of Completeness
      4. Objections
      5. Fairness
3. OPENING STATEMENTS AND DIRECT EXAMINATION
   12:30 - 2:00, Stephen R. Leffler
   1. Maximizing the Impact of Opening Statements
      (Introducing Case Theme and Key Case Parties; Laying out the Sequence of Events; Introducing Supporting and Damaging Evidence; Preparing Judge and Jury to Focus on Specific Elements of Trial Presentation; Opening Techniques That Simply Don't Work, Cutting out Unnecessary Clutter)
   2. Preparation Tips for Direct Examination
      (Establishing the Main Theme; Organizing the Order of Testimony; Preparing Witnesses; Formulating Effective Questions)
   3. Areas of Direct Examination
      (Specific Approaches to Impeachment, Fact Testimony, Expert Testimony, Causation, Liability, Damages, Foundation, etc.)
   4. Persuasive Witness Testimony - How to:
      1. Develop the Story and Make it Interesting
      2. Integrate a Theme
      3. Adjust to the Specific Audience
      4. Limit the Scope
      5. Handle and Introduce Exhibits
      6. Authenticate Documents
      7. Humanize Your Witness
      8. Anticipate and Neutralize Cross-Examination
   5. Is Interim Commentary Allowed? How to Use it Well
4. CROSS-EXAMINATION AND REDIRECT - FOCUS ON EXPERTS AND EVIDENCE
   2:15 - 3:15, W. Bradley Gilmer
   1. Advanced Uses of Basic Cross-Exam Tools: Bias, Opportunity to Observe, Inconsistency, etc.
   2. Tips for Cross-Examining Difficult Lay Witnesses
   3. Opposing Experts in the Courtroom - Setting Up the Motion to Strike
      1. Timing/Sequence
      2. Phrasing
      3. Detailed Facts
      4. Psychological Components
      5. Advanced Techniques for Getting an Expert Disqualified
   4. Making and Responding to Objections
   5. Relevancy Issues
   6. Addressing Hearsay
   7. Redirect Examination - Taking Advantage of the Often-Overlooked Resource
5. SUMMATIONS AND JURY INSTRUCTIONS
   3:15 - 4:15, W. Bradley Gilmer
   1. What to Include
   2. Length and Style Tactics
   3. Use of Pace and Voice Inflection to Emphasize Key Elements
   4. Addressing the Weak Points of the Case
   5. The Verdict Sheet/Jury Instructions - Clearly Asking for What You Want
6. ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
   4:15 - 4:30, All Faculty
   1. Handling Surprises at Trial - What to do When Unfavorable Facts Surface
   2. Lessons Learned From Experience - Share Your Trial Tips and Techniques

W. BRADLEY GILMER is a partner with Harris Shelton where he primarily represents healthcare providers in professional negligence suits. This includes hospitals, long term care facilities, drug and alcohol rehabilitation institutions, physicians, dentists, and other licensed healthcare professionals. Mr. Gilmer earned his B.A. degree in English from the University of Mississippi and his J.D. degree from the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law. He is admitted to practice in Tennessee, United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court.

SEAN ANTONE HUNT is the owner of the Memphis boutique commercial defense law firm, The Hunt Law Firm, where the two-person law firm brings a unique team format to in-house counsel and business clients for their litigation needs. For the past 20 years, he has practiced in the areas of Section 1983 litigation, construction litigation, products liability, personal injury, workers' compensation and insurance defense. Recently, Mr. Hunt has become a Rule 31 trained mediator as well. Mr. Hunt has lectured at seminars on his areas of expertise and has conducted several in-house presentations on workers' compensation issues for his firm's clients. He is a member of the American, Tennessee, Memphis, and National (Ben F. Jones Chapter) bar associations; the State Bar of Georgia; and The Mississippi Bar. Mr. Hunt is licensed to practice law in Tennessee, Georgia and Mississippi. His firm provides defense for clients all over the state of Tennessee and parts of Mississippi and Georgia. He is currently the chair of the Memphis Bar Association's Technology Section, a former chair of the Tennessee Bar Association's Construction Law Section, a former member of the Board of the Memphis Bar Association, and a member of the Memphis Bar Association's Communications Committee, where he writes the technology column and various other articles for the Memphis Lawyer Magazine. Mr. Hunt earned his B.S. degree in civil engineering from Tennessee State University and his J.D. degree from Vanderbilt University Law School.

STEPHEN R. LEFFLER is president of the Law Office of Stephen R. Leffler, P.C., in Memphis. He has practiced law in the state and federal courts of western Tennessee for more than 20 years. Mr. Leffler is a frequent CLE lecturer on issues of criminal law, civil trial practice and wrongful death. His practice is in the areas of criminal law, personal injury, wrongful death, misdemeanors and felonies. Mr. Leffler is a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, the Memphis and Tennessee bar associations, the Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association and the Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Mr. Leffler is also a Mid-South Super Lawyer. He earned his B.A. degree from the Centre College of Kentucky and his J.D. degree from Memphis State University.