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Goal:     Participants master the methods of planning and persuasion critical to appellate trial practice.  Participants use the building block approach that includes structuring effective briefs, argument, and supporting legal authority.

Length: 2 ½ days

Skill Development

• Case analysis
• Persuasive writing
• Issue identification
• Oral persuasive presentation of facts issues and arguments

Issues included in case files

• Interference with contracts
• Interference with prospective economic advantage
• Defamation
• Punitive damages 

Techniques

• Lecture
• Demonstration
• Participant performance
• Faculty critique