Advocacy Toolkit

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Our award-winning Advocacy Toolkit!

CLEBC’s award-winning Advocacy Toolkit is designed to assist lawyers with limited recent court experience. The Advocacy Toolkit follows a single fact pattern and features short videos demonstrating effective and ineffective examples of 10 essential oral advocacy skills. Each video is annotated with commentary and explanations on how to make a more effective oral presentation. The skills demonstrated include:

  • theory of the case
  • opening
  • chambers applications
  • examination for discovery
  • direct examination
  • cross-examination
  • refreshing memory
  • objections
  • impeaching the witness through prior inconsistent statement
  • closing