Sarah Havens

Case framing is KEY. Regardless of whether Mini Openings are allowed in your jurisdiction, you will learn skills, case framing, and voir dire techniques that you can immedat3ely in apply in your practice. This SUPER FUN, fast-paced, action packed, "learn by doing" program uses 2-6 minute “fun-on-your-feet” drills to dissect, simplify and sharpen your case framing, presentation and jury selection questioning.. You will be practicing mini openings and voir dire with carefully selected drills and exercises derived from Sarah’s 8 years as a NITA (National Institute of Trial Advocacy) trial skills faculty instructor, 10 years Trial Lawyers Collage graduate, collaborations with the best trial lawyers and consultants in the country, and personal trial experience. Whether guru or beginner, you will leave with valuable tools to add to your quiver. Don’t tell me, SHOW ME!

Drills include:
• Case Framing
• Jury Connection & Empowerment
• Brutal Honesty
• Big money, bias, burden of proof, caps, lawsuits, exaggerating, pre-existing conditions, sympathy … and more
• Walking jurors off for cause / Cause challenges buzz words judges need for cause challenges– LEARN AND PRACTICE THE LAW
• Selecting your good jurors by pre-habing/ walking off our bad jurors for cause
• Owning bad facts without sponsoring them
• The line between pre-conditioning and discovering biases
• Sequencing
• Leaders v. Followers

There will be three zoom prep sessions & materials. Participants will workshop their own case but have an option to use a provided fact pattern.