Trial Notebook offers hundreds of techniques and tactics for every stage of a trial s progress in spare lively memorable prose. Users get strategies grounded in actual courtroom experience that will improve the effectiveness of their advocacy. Expanded updated and revised by the author this edition of Trial Notebook includes 30 years of James McElhaney s clear graceful and entertaining writing. Nearly a third larger than the previous edition the book includes 90 chapters that cover every stage of trial. Topics include: preparation humanizing the client rules of evidence examining witnesses being persuasive; and closing arguments. As a practitioner and professor author James McElhaney knows his subject better than anyone and he executes eloquently the responsibility of passing on the art and science of trial advocacy. Used again and again by thousands of trial lawyers Trial Notebook is certain to improve the effectiveness of your advocacy.