Evidence: Some Things You Thought You Learned in Law School
November 30, 2010
Suffolk County Bar Association
560 Wheeler Road, Hauppauge, New York 11788
Intended Audience: Attorneys
5:30pm - 9:00pm
Contact Info:
Dorothy Paine Ceparano
Phone: (631) 234-5588
Email: dorothy@scba.org
Brian C. Doyle of Farrell Fritz, P.C. will be co-presenting with the Hon. Mark D. Cohen and William T. Ferris, Esq. This seminar is the final segment of a five-part Trial Skills Series. Other sessions have covered commercial trials, negligence trials, landlord-tenant trials and criminal trials.
This seminar carries 3.0 MCLE credits in either professional practice or skills.
Agenda:
5:30 p.m. sign-in and light supper
6:00 to 9:00 p.m. seminar
Topics to be covered:
– item checklist refresher: moving items in evidence
– photographs
– diagrams
– hearsay
– business records
– certified records
– experts
– what can the expert rely on in formulating an opinion?
– missing witnesses
– judicial notice
– refreshing recollection
– past recollection recorded
– cross examination with prior statements/testimony
– cross examination with prior crimes/bad acts
– email, text messages and IM’s
– best evidence
– summary or voluminous records
– tape recordings
– cases
Tuition:
$90 SCBA members
$110 non-members
SCBA members who enrolled in at least three of the series’ segments pay $65.
Non-members who enrolled in at least three of the series’ segments pay $90.
Online registrants are entitled to a $5 discount.