12 BEST TRIAL MOVIES

The following list by Patric M. Verrone, a lawyer, in an article called 'The 12 Best Trial Movies' from the ABA journal/November 1989. 'List only' reprinted by permission.

THE 12 BEST TRIAL MOVIES

1 The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
2 "M" (1931)
3 Twelve Angry Men (1957)
4 The Wrong Man (1957)
5 Paths of Glory (1958)
6 Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
7 Inherit the Wind (1960)
8 Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
9 The Trial (1962)
10 To Kill a Mockingbird (1963)
11 A Man For All Seasons (1966)
12 The Verdict (1982)

Do you agree?

LEXISNEXIS ENTERS ALLIANCE WITH THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR TRIAL ADVOCACY

In Issue 10, Oct 2005 of LexisNexis Information Professional Update, there is an article on the alliance of LexisNexis and the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. The aim is to provide practical information for those who attend NITA trial advocacy programs and use NITA materials.

MASTERING VOIR DIRE AND JURY SELECTION

There is a new and expanded edition (2005) of Jeffrey T. Frederick's book Mastering Voir Dire and Jury Selection. This practical book is intended to offer skills in voir dire and jury selection. It is accompanied by a user-friendly CD-ROM with more than 70 juror questionaires.

NEW ACQUISITIONS OF POSSIBLE INTEREST TO THE TRIAL ADVOCACY PROGRAM

CALL # KF8918 .B61 1992.
AUTHOR Bocchino, Anthony J.
TITLE Business Machines, Incorporated v. Minicom,
Incorporated : UCC/Commercial / by Anthony J. Bocchino,
Donald H. Beskind.
IMPRINT Notre Dame, Ind. : National Institute for Trial
Advocacy, c1992.



CALL # KF8984.A65 M35 2005.
TITLE Manual of model civil jury instructions for the
district courts of the Eighth Circuit.
IMPRINT Eagan, MN : Thomson/West, 2005.

TEMPLE LAW SCHOOL'S NATIONAL TRIAL TEAM WINS TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS

This past weekend in Akron, Ohio, Temple Law School's National
Trial Team won NITA's prestigious National Invitational
Tournament of Champions for an unprecedented fourth time.
The team is composed of Miriam Edelstein, Jessica Dumas, Justin Oshana and Mia Roberts. The win was Temple's second national invitational championship of the fall season.

In winning its fourth Tournament of Champions in the last ten years, the team defeated the following fifteen
schools: Akron, Buffalo, Denver, Georgetown, Harvard,
Houston, Loyola of Chicago, Loyola of Los Angeles,
Northwestern, Stetson, South Texas, Suffolk, Syracuse,
University of North Carolina, University of Washington and
Washington University--St.Louis.

Justin Oshana also won the "Best Advocate in the
Final Round" Award.

The team was coached by Professor Maureen
McCartney, Director of Trial Advocacy Programs and Elizabeth Lippy,Esq. (Rubin, Glickman & Steinberg)