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Coaching Tips
Administrative Tasks
Don’t Reinvent the Wheel
Coaching Models
Recruitment
Calendars
Funding a Team
Supplies and Props
Attendance
Choosing Team Roles
Collaborative Work Areas
Scrimmages
Student Safety
Last Minute Checklist
Team Dress
Educational Material
Case Preparation
Opening Statements
Witness Preparation
Direct Examinations
Cross Examinations
Closing Arguments
How to Introduce Exhibits
How to Make Objections
Procedural and Substantive Objections
Bailiff’s Duties
Clerk’s Duties
Rules, Roles and Decorum
Public Speaking Skills
What Makes an Effective Public Speaker
Overview of Public Speaking Skills
Advanced Public Speaking Skills
Oratory Skills
Impromptu Speaking
Lesson Plans
Team Building Exercises
Mock Trial Skills
Links
Resources
Video Links
Work Templates
Resources
Resources
Resources
Law Library of Congress in the U.S. Capitol, 1895
Website Links
Federal Rules of Civil Proceedure
Cornell School of Law
Black's Online Law Dictionary
Black's Law Dictionary
American Mock Trial Association (Intercollegiate competition)
American Mock Trial Association
National High School Mock Trial Championship
National High School Mock trial Championship
Classroom Law Project (Oregon H.S. Mock Trial Competition)
Oregon H.S. Mock Trial
North Carolina Mock Trial Program (MCMTP)
North Carolina H.S. Mock Trial
Colorado Bar Association H.S. Mock Trial
Colorado H.S. Mock Trial
Constitutional Rights Foundation
(Sponsors Mock Trial in California)
California H.H. Mock Trial
Books/Pamphlets
Colorado Bar Association's "Survival Guide for Teaching Mock Trial"
Survival Guide for Teaching Mock Trial
"Street Law's Classroom Guide to Mock Trials and Moot Courts", Alexandra M. Ashbrook, J.D. McGraw Hill/Glencoe Publishers
Street Law's Classroom Guide to Mock Trials and Moot Court
People v. Meadows: A Mock Trial Designed for the Classroom - Grades 6-12
Constitutional Rights Foundation
People v. Meadows
Grades 6-12
American Bar Association Mock Trial Plan for Middle School
Middle School Mock Trial Lesson Plan
"Pleasing the Court: A Mock Trial Handbook", Dr. John R Vile
"The Articulate Advocate: New Techniques of Persuasion for Trial Lawyers", Brian K. Johnson and Martha Hunter, Crown King Books, 2016
"Theatre Tips and Strategies for Jury Trials", 3rd Edition, David Ball, 2003
