Litigation & Appeals

PA Specific

4.5

Pennsylvania Civil Trial Skills

Credits Available
Credit Status Total
New York CLE Approved 7 Total
Pennsylvania CLE Approved 6 Total
OnDemand
6 hours 3 minutes
Neal Jacobs
Daniel Bernheim
Anne Gruner
Lawrence Rosenwald
With Neal A. Jacobs from Stevens & Lee + 3 others
Recorded August 20, 2025.
Product ID 100516

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Overview

Real-World Insights on Jury Selection, Evidence, Cross-Examination, and More!

Countless hours in building a solid case theme and supporting it with admissible evidence are about to crescendo in the all-or-nothing storytelling contest. Are you ready? In this online seminar, experienced trial attorneys will reveal their hard-won insights and show you how to deliver your side of the case to the decision-makers with clarity, persuasion, and force. Gain the edge with these tried-and-true trial skills - register today!

  • Prepare a trial notebook that provides all the documents and info you need at a moment's notice.
  • Learn how to flush out jurors' true biases and attitudes during voir dire.
  • Discover the recipe for opening statements that resonate with jurors.
  • Get practical pointers on introducing exhibits and responding to objections.
  • Refine your direct and cross-examination skills with tips from veteran trial attorneys.
  • Make the most of your last arguments before the jury head into deliberations.

Abbreviated Agenda

  1. Creating a Trial Notebook - Your Blueprint for Trial
  2. Closing Arguments and Jury Instructions
  3. The Secrets to a Powerful Opening Statement
  4. Evidence Presentation, Objections, and Admission
  5. Direct Examination: Top 15 Tips in 30 Minutes
  6. Key Cross-Examination Strategies Every Lawyer Must Know
  7. Voir Dire and Jury Selection Tactics
  8. Ethics for Trial Lawyers

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Product ID 100516

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Credit Status Total
New York CLE Approved 7 Total
Pennsylvania CLE Approved 6 Total
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  1. Creating a Trial Notebook - Your Blueprint for Trial

    1. Countdown to Trial: What You Need to Do and When
    2. Traditional vs. Electronic Trial Notebooks
    3. What to Include, What to Exclude, and How to Organize
    4. Developing Key Sections of the Trial Binder
    5. Using the Notebook and Troubleshooting From the Courtroom

  2. Closing Arguments and Jury Instructions

    1. Do's and Don'ts of Closing Arguments
    2. Organizing Your Closing Arguments
    3. Effectively Using Evidence
    4. Rebutting Arguments and Addressing Bad Facts
    5. Practical Insights on Discussing Damages
    6. Concluding Your Closing
    7. Jury Instructions: Standard and Special

  3. The Secrets to a Powerful Opening Statement

  4. Evidence Presentation, Objections, and Admission

    1. Rules and Procedures Governing the Introduction and Exclusion of Evidence
    2. Motions in Limine: The Trial Lawyer's Best Friend
    3. Using Documentary Evidence
    4. Spotlight on Email, Social Media, and Smartphone Evidence
    5. Lay and Expert Witness Testimony
    6. Demonstrative and Illustrative Evidence
    7. Hearsay and Other Objections: When to Use Them and How to Respond

  5. Direct Examination: Top 15 Tips in 30 Minutes

  6. Key Cross-Examination Strategies Every Lawyer Must Know

    1. Preparing for the Cross-Examination
    2. Maintaining Control of the Witness and Direction of the Examination
    3. Cross-Examining Experts
    4. Tips for Cross-Examining Difficult and Special Witnesses
    5. Witness Impeachment Tactics

  7. Voir Dire and Jury Selection Tactics

    1. The Written and Unwritten Rules of Jury Selection
    2. Juror Questionnaires and Research Tips
    3. How Jurors Think: What You Need to Know
    4. Building Rapport and Getting Jurors Talking
    5. Asking the Right Questions the Right Way
    6. The Big DON'Ts of Voir Dire Questions
    7. Avoiding Socially Desirable Response Bias
    8. Jury Selection Strategy: Who to Strike and How

  8. Ethics for Trial Lawyers

    1. Ethical Duties Toward the Tribunal
    2. Ethics of Evidence
    3. Improper Arguments
    4. Communicating With Witnesses
    5. Ex Parte Communications
    6. Juror Investigation, Contact, Bias in Jury Selection, and Jury Tampering

Who Should Attend

This basic-to-intermediate level online seminar is designed for attorneys.

Speakers

Neal A Jacobs
Neal A.
Jacobs
Stevens & Lee
Daniel S Bernheim III
Daniel S.
Bernheim, III
Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer P.A.
Anne A Gruner
Anne A.
Gruner
Duane Morris LLP
Lawrence S Rosenwald
Lawrence S.
Rosenwald
Lawrence S. Rosenwald, P.C.
Speaker bio
Neal A Jacobs

Neal A. Jacobs

Stevens & Lee
Neal Jacobs

is the managing attorney and firm founder of the Jacobs Law Group PC. His practice is focused on complex corporate, business and litigation matters. Mr. Jacobs devotes particular attention to privately held companies and their shareholder and member relations. He focuses on complex corporate matters involving the interplay of the rights and obligations of management, and the various classes of equity holders and lenders and others. Mr. Jacobs is a member of the Philadelphia, New Jersey State and Pennsylvania bar associations, as well as the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association. He earned his B.S. degree in economics from Cook College, Rutgers University and his J.D. degree, with honors, from Rutgers University School of Law, Camden.

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Daniel S Bernheim III

Daniel S. Bernheim, III

Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer P.A.
Daniel Bernheim

is a shareholder with the law firm of Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer P.A. He serves as the managing partner of the firm's Philadelphia office, where his practice is devoted to commercial litigation, with a concentration in bankruptcy, creditors' rights, lender liability and negotiable instruments. Mr. Bernheim has been trial counsel in a number of matters with published opinions concerning federal consumer protection laws, including the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, Truth in Lending Act, and Equal Credit Opportunity Act. He has also served as an expert witness on behalf of law firms accused of violating these acts. Mr. Bernheim is a member of the Philadelphia and American bar associations, Trial Lawyers Association of America, and Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association. He earned his B.A. degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his J.D. degree from Villanova University. Mr. Bernheim was a member of the first LL.M. degree class in trial advocacy from Temple University.

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Anne A Gruner

Anne A. Gruner

Duane Morris LLP
Anne Gruner

is a senior associate with the Philadelphia office of Duane Morris LLP. She represents major medical device and pharmaceutical industry clients in complex products liability, class action and multidistrict litigation disputes. Ms. Gruner serves on national counsel teams representing global and Fortune 500 company clients in a variety of high-profile mass tort and regulatory matters. Her current work focuses on defense of medical device manufacturers in both single-plaintiff and coordinated settings, including on leadership counsel teams for multidistrict litigations. Ms. Gruner handles cases in all phases of litigation and has experience in federal and state court motion practice, managing and steering comprehensive discovery strategies in individual and coordinated state and federal court matters, handling numerous party, fact and expert witness depositions, and working with consultants and experts to rebut technical theories of scientific and medical causation. Ms. Gruner has worked on multiple high-stakes trials involving misuse of a pharmaceutical product and has prepared various scientific experts for testimony in a federal jury trial involving claims related to alleged damage sustained during Hurricane Katrina. Appellate experience includes briefing and arguing two civil appeals in New York's Second Department. Ms. Gruner publishes regularly on products liability issues including federal preemption and other novel defense strategies. She serves on the Board of Directors for Turning Points for Children, one of the largest social services providers for children in Philadelphia, and is a Programming Chair for Duane Morris' Women's Impact Network for Success. Admitted to practice in New York and Pennsylvania, Ms. Gruner is a 2009, cum laude, graduate of Boston College Law School and a, magna cum laude, graduate of Vanderbilt University.

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Lawrence S Rosenwald

Lawrence S. Rosenwald

Lawrence S. Rosenwald, P.C.
Lawrence Rosenwald

has handled more than one thousand civil and criminal cases in a variety of legal areas over his 40 year career. He has extensive transactional experience including contract, construction, real estate, commercial, and estate and trust law. Mr. Rosenwald has litigation experience in areas as diverse as real estate, trusts and estates, eminent domain, construction, commercial, and civil rights. He has lectured in the areas of real estate law, credit and collection practice, eminent domain law, and trust and estate law to various professional groups. Mr. Rosenwald earned his B.S. and J.D. degrees, with honors, from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School and Law School. He served as chairman of the Eminent Domain Committee and the Vendors and Purchases Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association, and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association.

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