“I'll suggest to you that you are not trying to persuade the jury any less in opening statements than you are in closing arguments. It's just that you have to do so within the confines of the rules of evidence and the rules of procedure and the rules of ethics,” says Chicago trial lawyer Dan Kotin.
April 14, 2022 at 07:30 AM
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Just because they’re called “opening statements” doesn’t mean they can’t be persuasive.
That was the takeaway from a presentation on openings from Chicago trial lawyer Dan Kotin of Tomasik Kotin Kasserman earlier this week in a web presentation sponsored by the National Institute of Trial Advocacy.
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Dan Kotin of Tomasik Kotin Kasserman speaking during a recent NITA webcast on openings statements. Image from video
