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Randi McGinn on Direct Examination
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Randi McGinn, one of the top trial lawyers in the country, walks listeners through her tried and proven strategies for creating compelling arguments from witness testimony. She discusses how utilizing techniques that appeal to different learning styles can ensure that the jurors will not only understand how serious your client’s injury is, but will remember and callback to specific details during deliberation.
Citing previous successful cases to support these practices, McGinn breaks down the necessary elements for an effective direct examination:
- How to question an expert witness versus the damages witness and plaintiff
- Framing your questions with headlines
- The importance of using an active voice
- The benefits of visual aids
- How to prepare your client for direct examination
- How to piece together the most impactful elements of your client’s story
- How to emphasize progress
In the follow-up Q&A, McGinn answers listeners’ questions on subjects such as:
- How to introduce charts/visuals without objections
- The best way to show soft-tissue injuries
- Creating rules for the jury during direct examination
- Best practices for interviewing your client’s family members and friends
- The best way to deal with your case’s weakness
- Getting the witness to use the demonstrative
- Addressing permanent injury
- How to approach punitive damages during direct
- When to ask the expert their qualifications to render an opinion
- How to use recency in direct
- Preparing for cross-examination
- How to argue for noneconomic damages
- How to deal with passive aggressive testimony
- How to prepare expert witnesses
- Reviewing demonstrative charts with the witness
- How to question a client with memory loss during direct examination
- How to coach your client so they don’t freeze on the stand
- Navigating redirect
McGinn implores you to be creative during direct examination. She offers advice for a range of things you can do, whether it be a change in verbiage or creating a visual during direct examination, that will leave an impression on the judge and jury so your client is awarded the justice they rightfully deserve.
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*This interview was originally offered to customers as part of our Trial Guides LIVE Fireside Chat series. The content has been remastered and edited for brevity and clarity.
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Audio Digital Download: 90 minutes; 1st Edition (2021)
Publisher: Trial Guides, LLC
Overall rating: 4.875 / 5 from 8 reviews.
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Randi's approach is key to transforming a basic and boring direct into something much more impactful.
"This product helped me to move beyond the "standard," direct examination framework of basic, non-leading, common questions and sequencing that we are all so familiar with to a new approach that provides a much more impactful, attention grabbing, and emotion eliciting direct examination. I have found my direct examinations to be much more compelling and less robotic thanks to Randi's advice."
Randi on direct
"Some teach. Some tell war stories. She is great at both."
Direct Exam
"Ms. McGinn gave some insightful suggestions and how to begin to question your client, witness and or expert and help present your theory to the jury. Highly recommend"
Good informative and helpful
"Good informative and helpful"
Excellent Program and Worth Every Penny
"I bought this audio program hoping to pick up some tips on how to improve my direct examinations, and it didn't disappoint. Ms. McGinn is not only a genius trial lawyer, but also a funny and entertaining presenter. Good stuff here for direct of both lay and expert witnesses. I especially liked her suggestions for drawing out witnesses' background information. Very happy with my decision to buy this program. Worth every penny!"
Randi is a master at
"Randi is a master at trials, and this presentation and interview session shows her mastery. She gives some great examples on how to start the direct examination beyond just "tell us your name and address." She also guides you on how to transport the witness back to the scene by having them use their senses to describe what they're seeing, smelling, hearing. She also goes into the direct exam of experts, how to humanize them such as asking a forensic pathologist "what ever possessed you to want to work with dead bodies?" This presentation is definitely worth listening to as Randi is anything but boring and a master at what she does."
Excellent and Easy Listen
"This audio recording on Direct Examination by Randi McGinn is a must listen. I found it insightful and remarkably helpful for upcoming trial preparation. Truly great information."
