Litigation

Test Yourself: What Makes a Good Opening Statement

By Evan Schaeffer

At Winning Trial Practice Techniques, you take a quiz to find out whether your opening statements measure up.  It was written by Elliott Wilcox, and answers questions like these:

• When is the best time to disclose weaknesses in your case?

• Is it ever okay to use notes?

• Where should you stand?

• Should you use present tense, or past?

• What's the best way to end every opening statement?

Here's the link to the quiz. Related posts can be found here at Illinois Trial Practice in the Opening Statement category.

Full post as published by The Illinois Trial Practice Blog on August 14, 2008 (boomark / email).