Making Evidence Your Ally In The Courtroom — 3.25 California General Credits

Some courses are so good. so useful, so enduring that they are worth taking even though they do not earn CLE/MCLE credits. This is one of those courses.

The Law of Evidence provides trial lawyers a game plan on how to be persuasive in ways which often have little to do with winning or losing the objection and everything to do with reminding the jury why we are in court and entitled to the verdict. In this 3.3-hour, April 19, 2006 presentation, Edward D. Ohlbaum, Esq. shows you how to enable the listening audience to create its own version of the story of the case, how making and meeting objections should be viewed as opportunities to be persuasive and how to turn the Law of Evidence into your ally.

Eddie Ohlbaum was a trial lawyer and a Professor of Law and the Director of Trial Advocacy and Clinical Education at Temple University's Beasley School of Law in Philadelphia, PA. (Sadly, Mr. Ohlbaum died in 2014.) He was revered by his students and colleagues, receiving many, many honors including induction into the Trial Lawyer Hall Of Fame. (Please see: www.triallawyerhalloffame.org/inductees/eddie-ohlbaum/. He coached the law school's National Trial Team which during his tenure won 26 regional championships, earned 17 quarterfinalist positions and won 5 national championships. A record which was unparalleled during Professor Ohlbaum's lifetime.

Major topics include:

• Evidence Advocacy

• Objections and Offers Of Proof

• Statements To Avoid At All Costs

• Character Evidence

• Examining Witnesses

• Impeachment

• The Hearsay Dance

• Admissions

• Crawford Case

• Computer Animations and Emails

NO CLE/MCLE CREDIT; 7-CREDIT SUBSCRIPTION INCLUSION:
1. CLE/MCLE credits are not earned from taking this course because:
(a) It is the recording of the live April 19, 2006 program Mr. Ohlbaum did for us. CLE/MCLE Commissions do not approve programs held so long ago.
(b) In it, as the title indicates, he refers many times to the then Federal Rules Of Civil Procedure, some of which might have been amended since the program (April 19, 2006). Thus, we cannot verify that the substantive rules, etc. to which he refers are still the same. You will need to do that. However, this course is about trial techniques using rules of evidence. Those valuable techniques, as taught by this wonderful master, continue to be useful to this day, subject to FRCP and case law changes since the program date. If you are a trial practitioner, do not miss Professor Ohlbaum's words of wisdom.
2. 7-Credit Subscription: Even though this course does not earn CLE/MCLE credits, it does count as credits earned within a 7-Credit Subscription.

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