Audiotapes
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Audiotapes
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Office of
Legal Education Department of Justice
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OLE has a Audiotape Lending Library of tapes which are available for informal
use. The tapes are available on a first come, first served basis. You should
check with your local bar association to see if these tapes are eligible for
Continuing Legal Education credits.
This two and a half hour presentation explains how to effectively prepare, depose, and defend crucial witnesses in employment litigation. This particular video presents a sexual harassment scenario along with interviews, illustrations, deliberation, and commentary.
Running time: 190 minutes
Handouts:
del_agenda.pdf
A special committee was established by the American Bar Association Litigation Section to study jury comprehension in complex cases. This video series is the result of the three yearstudy of juries and their level of comprehension in complex cases. It also provides techniques to improve the jury trials based on the Committee's years of study and observation.
Running time: 255 minutes
Handouts:
jcc_agenda.pdf
This half-day videotape series moderated by the Honorable Marion E. Aspen, an experienced federal judge who served on an ABA special committee examining jury comprehension in complex cases, teaches employment litigators the techniques and strategies of jury trials. The faculty consists of skilled trial lawyers and employment litigators. The topics covered include: legislative changes increasing the availability of jury trials; shaping the case for trial to a jury; jury selection and jury comprehension; motion practice in jury trials; jury instructions; and proving compensatory and punitive damages.
Running time: 159 minutes
Handouts:
jte_agenda.pdf
This two tape series will demonstrate how to make direct examination memorable and convincing. The program is addressed to both civil and criminal trial lawyers and explains more than 50 ways to bring direct examination to life. Terence MacCarthy gives straightforward techniques for making direct examination persuasive and memorable, including how to structure examination for impact, how to emphasize important testimony and how to speak in a way that jurors understand. (A Videotaped Lecture Series - Produced by ABA-CLE and the Section of Litigation, 1996)
Running time: 2 hours, 30 minutes
Handouts:
lbde_agenda.pdf
This video presents a case and discusses how to prepare the oral argument from the point of view of the appellant, the appellee, and the court's perspective. Interviews are included as well as the actual argument to the Court. The Court also discusses their views of the case followed by a discussion with all the participants about the arguments.
Running time: 105 minutes
This half-day videotape series is intended to teach the fundamental skills involved in preparing for, taking, and defending depositions. The series includes demonstrations of preparing and deposing both lay and expert witnesses.
Running time: 207 minutes
Various methods of direct and cross-examination representing the plaintiff in a sexual harassment litigation suit are given through two trial demonstrations. Jurors are questioned and share their perspective on the case in regards to the impressions of the plaintiff and key moments of the examinations.
Running time: 180 minutes
