*PRE-ORDER, APPROX 4-6 BUSINESS DAYS* Skillful Witness Examinations in Civil and Arbitration Cases by Robert S. Harrison 9781038200051 [ZZ]

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The authors' approach to conveying effective examination techniques is built upon a richly developed illustrative commercial dispute, which will ensure that these techniques are concretely demonstrated through references to a meaningful set of facts. Some twenty-four carefully drawn transcript excerpts are interspersed throughout the text to illustrate the practical application of effective examination techniques, all based on the case example.

A few selections from the detailed table of contents indicate the range and uniqueness of this work:

• A “Golden Rule” – Be Ready to Question off the Last Answer
• “Time Bombs”
• The Feckless Word “Recall”
• The Improper Leading Question Is Asked and the Damage Is Done – Now What?
• Three Foundational Concepts – Credibility, Control, and Confrontation
• Climbing the Rungs to an Admission or an Incredible Denial
• Tools of the Trade
• You Are Cross-Examining the Affiant, not the Affidavit
• The Basis of Control: Cementing the Expert In