Counseling Clients for Keeps: With Clarity, Candor & Connection through Bad News and Good
December 3, 2009
(8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.)
Lawyers Present ... So Present Well
December 3, 2009
(1:30 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.)
Writing Legally: Judge Painter's Rules for Plain Legal Writing
December 4, 2009
(8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.)
Client Troubles? It's Time for Psychiatric Advice
Weaver Institute for Law & Psychiatry/Center for Practice CLE Event
December 18, 2009
(8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.)
Making Mediators Workshop
(2 Thursday Evenings & 2 Fridays)
Spring Semester
Dates to be determined
Actor's Directions for Award Winning Trial Performance
Four Fall Tuesday Evenings
Writing Legally: Judge Painter's Rules for Plain Legal Writing
October 2, 2009
(8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.)
Check back for more information on the upcoming competitions.
Actor’s Directions for Award Winning Trial Performance
A Four Evening CLE Series
“Starring”
Rocco Dal Vera
Professor of Drama at UC’s College Conservatory of Music
Acclaimed Actor, Voice and Speech Coach, and Author
At the University of Cincinnati College of Law
Third Evening: September 29, 2009
5:30–9:00 p.m. (including sandwich supper)
9:00–10:00 p.m. Ethics Hour
On Cross Examination: Control, Command, and Convey
The Lawyer-As-Actor’s Ethical Limits
Agenda
5:30 – 5:40 Introduction: Soliloquies and Sandwiches
5:40 – 7:15 Controlling, Extracting & Illuminating Cross Examination Gold
7:15 – 7:25 Break
7:25 – 8:50 Keeping Character and Command
9:00 – 10:00 The Lawyer-As-Actor’s Ethical Limits
Examination of potential witness and jury manipulation and deception through deliberate choices in movement, anchoring, vocal, emotional and narrative strategies.
Faculty presentation and class discussion of relevant ABA Model Rules and consequent limits on the lawyer- as-actor.
Professor Rocco Dal Vera will present and demonstrate acting, movement and vocal techniques and provide feedback, Professor Marjorie Corman Aaron will facilitate discussion of attorneys’ perspectives.