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The City University Of New York Law School: An Insider's Report, Vanessa Merton
The City University Of New York Law School: An Insider's Report, Vanessa Merton
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
The Law School of the City University of New York ("CUNY") is an experiment in whether it is possible for lawyers to integrate their lives. It is not, primarily, an institution with a somewhat novel, somewhat derivative, approach to legal education (although it is that). It is a place where lawyers try to bridge the gap between love and work, those so often dichotomized constituents of life. At CUNY we are trying simultaneously to equip students for survival in the current legal system and to burden them with a critical perspective on that system; to do and think, to practice …
What Your Opening Statement Should And Shouldn't Do: Some Surprising Advice, Steven H. Goldberg
What Your Opening Statement Should And Shouldn't Do: Some Surprising Advice, Steven H. Goldberg
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
Prosecutors and criminal defense attorneys would do well to consider how civil trial lawyers fashion their opening statements. As with any other part of the trial, the primary question to be answered in constructing an opening statement is: What do I want to accomplish? In civil cases the answer is almost always that each lawyer wants to persuade the jurors that the lawyer's version of the dispute is more likely to be correct than the opponent's. Opening statements in criminal trials, however, do not usually sound as if they were constructed with that goal in mind. Most fall into two …