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About the Seminar
Trial advocacy consists of a variety of skills that collectively equip a lawyer to effectively and persuasively represent her clients in judicial and administrative proceedings. The broad range of skills necessary to be a good trial advocate include the ability to examine witnesses, present legal and factual arguments, and address and be comfortable in front of a jury. Advocacy skills also include the ability to persuade others to your point of view, which depends to a large extent on being competent and having others – specifically the judge and the jury – view you as such. Competency requires not only a full and complete understanding of the facts of the case and the governing law, but also of the rules of evidence.

This program focuses on evidence advocacy. It will address effective evidence advocacy, problem areas for lawyers and judges, nine categories of evidence (using, for the most part, the South Carolina Rules of Evidence as guideposts). The written materials will address the substantive law related to the evidence to be discussed and include practical and strategic tips. The oral presentations will focus on the advocacy aspects and address several different evidence hypotheticals

 

Seminar Agenda
Welcome, Program Overview, Introductions
Wm. Grayson Lambert - General Counsel to Governor Henry McMaster

Effective Evidence Advocacy
Honorable John Cannon Few - Supreme Court of SC

Character Evidence (Rules 404 – 405)
William M. Blitch, Sr. - SC Attorney General’s Office

Competency of Witnesses (Rules 601 – 606)
Meliah Bowers Jefferson - Wyche, PA

Impeachment (Rules 607 – 613)
Mark Reynolds Farthing - SC Attorney General’s Office

Hearsay (Rules 801 – 806)
Matthew T. Douglas - John Price Law Firm, LLC

Expert Witnesses and Testimony (Rules 702 – 705)
Clarence Davis - Griffin Davis

Authentication and Identification (Rules 901 – 903)
Susan Barber Hackett - SC Commission on Indigent Defense

Writing, Recordings, and Photographs (Rules 1001 – 1008)
Frank L. Eppes - Eppes & Plumblee, PA

Evidentiary Privileges
Alice F. Paylor - Rosen Hagood LLC

Visual Advocacy
Justin S. Kahn - Kahn Law Firm, LLP

How Trial Judges Do Their Thing in Real-Time
Honorable Frank R. Addy, Jr. - S.C. Circuit Court
Honorable R. Ferrell Cothran, Jr. - S.C. Circuit Court
Honorable Debra R. McCaslin - S.C. Circuit Court
Honorable William A. McKinnon - S.C. Circuit Court
Honorable Maite Murphy - SC. Circuit Court
Honorable Jocelyn Newman - S.C. Circuit Court

Moderator: Honorable Roger M. Young, Sr. - S.C. Circuit Court
Course Planner/Moderator: Amie Clifford - S.C. Commission on Prosecution Coordination
Wm. Grayson Lambert - Senior Legal Counsel 

Mandatory MCLE Credit Hours
This seminar qualifies for 3.0 MCLE credit hours.

 This seminar is an Intermediate level program.

 

Note: When submitting your compliance reports to the SC Commission on CLE and Specialization, if you completed this in 2024, please use this course code: 241257ADO.

 

  Note: When submitting your compliance reports to the SC Commission on CLE and Specialization, if you completed this in 2025, please use this course code: 

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