Mock trials can be useful to determine whether and where your client's case and legal theories has strengths and weaknesses. However, mock trials are not crystal balls, predicting the future with certainty, and the practitioner should not walk away from a successful mock trial verdict with unrealistic conclusions and expectations for the real trial.

Rather, mock trials are learning tools from which you can gather further strategic and analytic insight, as well as informing you and your clients how others might perceive your theories of the case.

Further, the utility and value of the mock trial exercise is very much influenced by the manner in which the trial evidence is distilled and presented to your mock jury, as well as how your mock jury is selected, instructed and polled ruing the exercise.

This CLE lecture will discuss productive approaches and strategies to working with your mock trial vendor, developing your mock trial presentation, and adducing the most cogent results out of the exercise.

There is something here for everyone, from the seasoned, large firm litigator, to the less-experienced, small firm practitioner. Presented by a complex business torts trial attorney entering his 33rd year of practice.