Category: Civil Practice & Procedure, Personal Injury |
ILLINOIS CIVIL PRACTICE: TRYING THE CASE deals with the practical and strategic aspects of handling a case during trial. The chapters follow, as much as possible, the sequence of events as the trial progresses. The handbook walks you through the “typical” sequence of events as a trial progresses, and includes discussions of the traits and skills of an effective trial advocate, the jury, the opening statement, presenting testimony, preserving the record during trial, presenting the case-in-chief, motions during and at the close of the plaintiff’s and defendant’s cases, motions at the close of all the evidence, the closing argument, jury instructions and special interrogatories, return of the verdict and entry of judgment, and posttrial motions. Includes a Forms CD with dozens of sample motions, orders, statements — all fully editable for use in your own practice.
Chapter 1 — The Trial Advocate: Purpose, Talent, and Philosophy
Theodore R. Tetzlaff, Tetzlaff Law Offices LLC, Chicago
Chapter 2 — The Jury: The “Right” to It and the Selection of It
Robert Marc Chemers, Pretzel & Stouffer, Chartered, Chicago
Chapter 3 — Opening Statement
Telly C. Nakos, O’Connor & Nakos, Ltd., Chicago
Chapter 4 — Presenting Testimony
Robert L. Byman, Jenner & Block LLP, Chicago
Chapter 5 — Preserving the Record During Trial
Mitchell L. Marinello and Richard L. Miller II, Novack and Macey LLP, Chicago
Chapter 6 — Presenting the Plaintiff’s Case
Hugh B. Arnold and Daniel N. Kadjan, Arnold & Kadjan, Chicago
Chapter 7 — Motions During and at Close of Plaintiff’s Case-in-Chief
Julie A. Teuscher, Thomas Fitzgerald, and Lea Ann Fracasso, Cassiday Schade LLP, Chicago
Chapter 8 — Presenting the Defendant’s Case
Richard J. Hoskins and Stacie R. Hartman, Schiff Hardin LLP, Chicago
Chapter 9 — Motions During and at the Close of the Defendant’s Case-in-Chief
Michael C. McCutcheon, Lindsay A. Philiben, and Kyle R. Olson, Baker & McKenzie, Chicago
Chapter 10 — Motions at the Close of the Evidence
Mitchell L. Marinello and Richard L. Miller II, Novack and Macey LLP, Chicago
Chapter 11 — Jury Instructions, Special Interrogatories, and Verdicts
Shelby L. Drury, Timothy J. Miller, and Alison Schwartz, Novack and Macey LLP, Chicago
Chapter 12 — Closing Argument
Gerald L. Angst and Stephen C. Carlson, Sidley Austin LLP, Chicago
Chapter 13 — Return of the Verdict and Entry of Judgment
Gregory J. Rastatter, Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen, P.C., Peoria
Chapter 14 — Posttrial Motions
Stephen C. Carlson and Elizabeth C. Curtin, Sidley Austin LLP, Chicago
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