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Genre/Form: | Legal maxims |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Stanley L Brodsky |
ISBN: | 9781433812125 1433812126 |
OCLC Number: | 796002587 |
Description: | viii, 251 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Admit-deny -- Burden of proof and degree of certainty -- Challenges to experience : 1, insufficient experience -- Challenges to experience : 2, case-specific experience -- Challenges to experience : 3, the case against experience -- Changing your mind -- Child sexual abuse testimony -- Collateral data -- Courtroom as place identity -- Credentialing -- Culture -- Diagnoses and definitions -- The direct examination -- Disaster relief -- DSM cautions -- Examiner effects -- Feisty experts : witnesses chiding judges and attorneys -- Freud as an expert witness -- Frittering away trustworthiness -- The hired gun -- The historic hysteric gambit -- Humor -- Intimidation -- Just before the court appearance -- Knowing when to fold them -- Language of testimony -- The learned treatise gambit -- Listening well -- Malingering and faking good -- Moving on -- Narcissistic experts -- Negative assertions -- Perspective taking -- Power and control on the witness stand -- Predictable answers -- Probes for guilt and shame -- Professional witnesses and professionalism -- Psychotherapists as expert witnesses -- The pull to affiliate and allegiance effects -- The push-pull technique -- Qualifications and expertise -- Report matters -- The Rumpelstiltskin Principle -- Saying "I don't know" versus waffling -- Socialization during the trial -- Staying current -- Theatrical and outlandish attorneys -- Transformative moments -- Uninvolved and inept attorneys -- Using quiet times -- Vigorous cross-examinations and vigorous answers -- The well-dressed witness -- When it is over -- Worst testifying experiences -- Your expertise used against you. |
Responsibility: | Stanley L. Brodsky. |
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Abstract:
"Testifying in court can be a challenging experience for both novice and veteran expert witnesses. For over 20 years, Stanley Brodsky's Testifying in Court has been a trusted source of sage and good-humored advice on every aspect of the process, from initial preparations to maintaining control during cross-examination. The chapters in this extensively updated new edition draw on real-life scenarios to illustrate key principles, and each chapter ends with an easily recallable maxim"--Unedited summary from book cover.
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