Preparing for Trial ...

In this article, Dr. Frederick David Graves, JD lays out that most cases are won in the preparation. In the course, he mentions that this is actually where the case is won, not by having fancy arguments or tricky rebuttals or surprise witnesses. But it’s not easy and is very time-consuming. However, once you know how it is done, you can simply roll up your sleeves and get it wrapped up in a very workmanlike fashion – and then go on to win your case because you already did all the hard work…

Preparation is everything!

Whether you're building a skyscraper or trying to win in court, success comes to those who plan and prepare!

This Tips & Tactics touches on a few ways to prepare your case for trial.

If you do things the way I teach in my leading, affordable, case-winning, official version Jurisdictionary step-by-step 24-hour course everyone is talking about, you can win even before trial!

To win, however, you must start preparing ... Now!

The best time to start preparing for trial is at the start of a case ... or, if you're already into the case, start now to prepare ... and, if you do things the way I teach, you can avoid trial altogether and walk away with a win!

Do not wait until the last minute to prepare!

The most critical preparation is making a written record of legal arguments and evidence. In fact, persuasive legal arguments and credible admissible evidence are essential to winning ... but, if you wait until trial to get your legal arguments "in" or to present your "evidence" as a surprise attack, you will likely be sadly disappointed.

Do not wait!

The time to start making your written record of legal arguments and admissible evidence is NOW ... not later!

Here are just a few points you'll learn in my course:

Now is the time to use your 5 discovery tools to get evidence into the record.

Now is the time to move the court to take judicial notice of all facts for which the court can be forced to take judicial notice.

Now is the time to file motions in limine to prevent your opponent from bringing in extraneous or prejudicial facts at trial.

Now is the time to file carefully-researched memoranda in support of your motions and overall legal position.

Now is the time to line up your witnesses, get affidavits of their testimony, and then take their depositions, so you can be assured their testimony at trial will be what they verbally "told" you it would be.

Now is the time to take depositions of your opponent's witnesses, so you can undermine them and show they do not have first-hand knowledge or that they are biased.

Now is the time to order my affordable, case-winning Jurisdictionary step-by-step 24-hour course and study it carefully so you don't find yourself behind the 8-ball when it comes time to try your case.

As I said above, if you prepare your case the way my 24-hour step-by-step course teaches (and you have a winnable case to start with) you may not have to go to trial after all.

Now is the very best time to win ... before trial.

If you are paying a lawyer, make certain your lawyer is preparing your case by doing everything that needs to be done Now! Don't let your lawyer wimp out on you. They often do, you know. Ask people who've been defeated by their own lawyer, if you don't believe me.

If you are pro se (going to court without a lawyer) you must prepare your case alone, but it's easy if you follow the step-by-step methods in my Jurisdictionary course.

Winning is easy if you prepare to win the way I teach in my course!

I know what it takes to win. I practiced law nearly 25 years. I can help you, if you're willing to learn from me!

Pro se people often do not get justice.

Why?

Let's examine a few facts:

1. Most pro se people don't know the rules.
2. Most pro se people don't know how to prevent the lawyer on the other side from playing tricks with the rules.
3. Most pro se people make assumptions about what is "admissible evidence" and stuff that isn't.
4. Most pro se people don't know how to draft their pleadings or motions properly.
5. Most pro se people don't know why it's important to write proposed orders for the judge to sign.
6. Most pro se people don't know why, when, or how to make effective objections in court.
7. Most pro se people don't understand what facts are critical to winning a case and what facts are of no consequence but only muddy the waters with court-confusing insignificance.
8. Most pro se people don't know why it's so vitally important to cite controlling appellate cases in support of their pre-trial and trial motions.
9. Most pro se people don't know how to arrange for a written transcript to be made of all proceedings before the court, so they can control the judge.
10. Most pro se people waste valuable court time with non-essentials, fail to appreciate the needs of others who have their own problems to bring before the court and, as a consequence, tend to make judges dread pro se cases.

Pro se people who know what I explain so simply in the official Jurisdictionary step-by-step 24-hour course are winning and even getting compliments from judges and even opposing lawyers ... because they do it right!

Not all judges are "against" pro se people "just because they are pro se". Most of the judges I knew in my 25 years were good people who cared about other people and did their best to guarantee justice according to the rules.

But! You must know how to protect yourself!

Pro se parties who know the rules and how to use them to protect themselves from courroom corruption the way my Jurisdictionary step-by-step 24-hour course makes so easy-to-understand don't let crooked lawyers get away with their smoke-and-mirrors tricks!