Selected Product: | Trial Techniques, 7e Paperback Edition: 7th Author: Thoms A. Mauet Publisher: Aspen Publishers Release Date: 2007-02-14 ISBN-10: 0735555591 ISBN-13: 9780735555594 List Price: $74.00 Average Customer Rating: | | Trial Evidence (Coursebook) ISBN-10: 0735549974 ISBN-13: 9780735549975 List Price:$70.00 Pretrial ISBN-10: 0735572038 ISBN-13: 9780735572034 List Price:$75.00 McElhaney's Trial Notebook, Fourth Edition ISBN-10: 1590315030 ISBN-13: 9781590315033 List Price:$64.95 Materials in Trial Advocacy: Problems and Cases, 6e ISBN-10: 0735556318 ISBN-13: 9780735556317 List Price:$76.00 |
To use our price comparison to get the cheapest price, please click on the "Find the Cheapest Price" button located above for Trial Techniques, 7e by Thoms A. Mauet (ISBN-10: 0735555591, ISBN-13: 9780735555594). At this time we have not yet written a review for Trial Techniques, 7e by Thoms A. Mauet (ISBN-10: 0735555591, ISBN-13: 9780735555594). Please continue to keep checking back to this page as we are constantly adding reviews. Summaries and Customer Reviews are supplied by Amazon.com Trial Advocacy | Customer Rating: | | The book is well written. Every lawyer has their own style, so several of the "techniques" recommended in the book are criticized by practicing attorneys. The chapters are pretty broad, I believe the entire book is less than 10 chapters: picking a jury, opening statement, direct, cross, exhibits, closing statement, expert witnesses. The information is accurate but this book is not a how to. | How to Stumble Through Your First Trial Without Embarrassing Yourself | Customer Rating: | | This book is absolutely fantastic. It's almost like a "Trials for Dummies" book for young attorneys and law students. Mauet's writing is easy to read and his advice is easy to follow. He provides examples that really drive home his points. This book should be assigned reading for every trial advocacy class. It was not assigned for my class but an attorney recommeded it to me and I found it invaluable. If you have a trial competition coming up, or are simply in over your head as a young attorney, reach for this lifeline ASAP! | A classic, but there are better books on trial techniques out there | Customer Rating: | Mauet's book has been around for a long time and it's beginning to show its age. The new edition sticks with the same format and doesn't add much new material. It offers solid advice that hardly anyone would disagree with, but in fact that's one of its flaws: it just doesn't push the envelope. For example, it tries to teach trial skills by looking only at hypothetical situations and fictional characters. Why use fiction when real life is so much more interesting and instructive? Why not use real court cases and learn from the mistakes and successes of lawyers we all know about?
My favorite trial techniques book right now is Winning at Trial, written by a current US Attorney (D. Shane Read). The author not only knows what he's talking about (you get the same solid advice as with Mauet), but the book also comes with two DVDs with over 4 hours of video from televised trials (including the O.J. trial), as well as numerous transcripts from actual trials. For students, your professor is probably going to stick with whatever text they're currently using, but I would recommend Read's book as a complement to give you a better idea of what really good (and not so good) trial attorneys do in actual trials. | Too long for delivery. | Customer Rating: | | The product in itself is fine. However, It took almost a month for me to receive the book. When in the purchase reciept it said it would arrive within 7 to 10 business days. I bought other books through Amazon from private owners and I received those books 2 days after my purchase and I was still waiting for the book I ordered through amazon. I would think that Amazon would be more speedy with purchases. |
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