Powerful Witness Preparation featuring Dan Small


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About the Seminar
Dan Small has built a brilliant career on his ability to prepare witnesses to be compelling advocates for his client, even if the witness is his client. As a federal prosecutor, general counsel for a healthcare management company, and as a partner at Holland & Knight, Small has used the same process that he will teach to you to introduce the witness to the foreign land of the deposition, hearing or courtroom and to prepare them to tell the story in a way that connects to jury or judge and produces winning results.
 
Dan represents witnesses, plaintiffs and defendants in wide-ranging investigations and proceedings in both civil and criminal litigation; that incredible breadth of experience is reflected in the bottom-line practical counsel he offers in this highly-acclaimed seminar.
 
Invest one precious day to discover new tips, tactics and techniques that will make you a more effective advocate.
 
Program Highlights
Learn the step-by-step method to teach your client basic principles of testifying.
Give your client confidence to exercise the right, responsibility and tools to take control of their testimony.
Level the playing field where the questioner usually has the advantage.
Alert your client to the most common witness mistakes. Share practical tips to avoid them.
Increase your expertise as an advocate and give yourself a winning edge in the litigation process.
 
Seminar Agenda
Program Begins
  1. Bridging the Gaps
    1. The Perception Gap
    2. The Conversation Gap
    3. The Audience Gap
  2. Understanding the Need
    1. Treacherous Environment
    2. Unnatural Environment
    3. Deceptive Environment
  3. Understanding the Audience
    1. Humanize the Witness
    2. Humanize the Party
    3. Simplify the Language
    4. Simplify the Message
  4. Understanding the Challenge
    1. Three Mistakes Witnesses Make
    2. Seven Mistakes Lawyers Make
  5. The Process
    1. Preparation - Key Steps
    2. Preparation Checklist
    3. Key Goals
  6. The Rules
    1. Basic Principles
    2. Framing the Message
    3. The 10 Rules
    4. Making an Impact
  7. Adapting to the Situation
    1. Interview v. Testimony
    2. Deposition v. Trial
    3. Direct v. Cross
  8. Expert Witness
    1. Role of the Expert
    2. Expert/Attorney Relationship
    3. Independence of Experts
    4. Expert Communications
  9. Ethical Challenges:
Preparation Does Not Mean Coaching!
  1. Extremes and Reality
  2. The Perjury Dilemma
  3. Conventional Wisdom vs. The New Order
    1. Core Themes/Home Bases
    2. Understanding the Keys
The Witnesses' Bill of Rights
 
  Mandatory MCLE Credit Hours
This seminar qualifies for 5.45 MCLE credit hours, including up to 1.0 LEPR credit hour.
This is an Intermediate Level Program. 
 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: 250722ADO.
 
   

Tags

Evidence
Litigation/Trial Practice
Big Ticket

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