MINNEAPOLIS
Friday, April 14, 2023
2:00 PM - 9:45 PM | Check-In: 1:30 PM
Minnesota CLE Conference Center
600 Nicollet Mall # 370
3rd Floor, City Center
Minneapolis, MN 55402
Rarely do we hear from a speaker who literally wrote the book on cross-examination, especially when that book revolutionized how lawyers try their cases. Larry Pozner is that lawyer, and his nationally famous program HOW TO WIN TRIALS WITH POWERFUL CROSS-EXAMINATIONS distills the methods set out in his book.
For more than 30 years Mr. Pozner has been recognized as America’s leading authority on the science of cross-examination. His book Cross Examination: Science and Techniques, 3rd edition (Lexis, Pozner and Dodd) is America’s all-time bestselling book on cross-examination.
Mr. Pozner packs his lectures with tools that any trial lawyer can employ, regardless of experience or type of trial practice. In this 6.5-hour seminar he shares signature techniques well-grounded in current thinking about the neuroscience of decision, memory, and emotion. He explains three tactical rules of cross-examination. He demonstrates how leading questions moderate witness behavior on the stand; how simple sentence construction, fact-ordering and the paintbrush of mental imagery can make a witness malleable; and how simple, logic-based facts can build memorable narrative, channel judge and jury cognition and drive the engine of inference to your advantage.
Join us for this highly rated seminar that has been presented to audiences in 48 states, throughout Canada and in Brazil. Here’s what attendees have said about this seminar:
Greatest seminar I have ever been to. Just wonderful—gives me a renewed sense of purpose.
Speaker was excellent. Presentation was interesting and very useful. Bring him back!
Excellent speaker; applicable principles; extremely engaging!
Excellent job! Very dynamic, holds interest and provides great info.
8:30 – 9:00 a.m.
CHECK-IN & CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
9:00 – 9:05 a.m.
WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS
9:05 – 9:50 a.m.
The Philosophy and Science of Modern Cross-Examination
9:50 – 10:35 a.m.
How to Use the Chapter Method to Tell Your Cross-Examination Story
10:35 – 10:50 a.m.
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
10:50 – 11:00 a.m.
BREAK
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
How to Establish the Plot for Your Cross-Examination Story
12:00 – 12:45 p.m.
LUNCH (on your own)
12:45 – 1:15 p.m.
How to Draft the Chapters of Your Cross-Examination Story
1:15 – 2:15 p.m.
High-Impact Impeachments
2:15 – 2:30 p.m.
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
2:30 – 2:45 p.m.
BREAK
2:45 – 3:15 p.m.
How to Prepare the Pages of Your Cross-Examination Chapters
3:15 – 3:45 p.m.
Three Techniques to Control the Witness
3:45 – 4:30 p.m.
How to Control the Evasive Witness and Techniques That Punish the Evasion
4:30 – 4:45 p.m.
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
LIVE IN-PERSON
Friday, April 14, 2023
Minnesota CLE Conference Center
600 Nicollet Mall, Suite 370
Seventh Street & Nicollet Mall, Third Floor City Center
Minneapolis, Minnesota
ONLINE REPLAY
Wednesday, May 10, 2023
Attend online
A moderator will be available to answer questions by email.
$295 MSBA members / $295 paralegals / $345 standard rate
Other discounts that may apply:
Scholarships available!
Need-based scholarships are available for in-person and online seminars. For further information or to obtain a scholarship application, contact us at 800-759-8840 or customerservice@minncle.org.
Minnesota CLE is applying to the Minnesota State Board of CLE for 6.5 standard CLE credits. The maximum number of total credits attendees may claim for this program is 6.5 credits.
Minnesota CLE also has applied to the Minnesota State Bar Association for 6.5 civil trial specialist credits and 6.5 criminal law specialist credits.
