Knowing Your Case Inside Out: How to Make Litigating Easier Through Case Mapping

Few things are more gratifying to a litigator in a case than having a thoroughgoing command of both the facts and the law. But how do you achieve that level of mastery? This CLE will focus on tools you can use for both nailing the facts down cold and learning the corner of the law that your case involves backward and forward. The CLE will also highlight the benefits that flow from putting in this work to marry the facts and the law—such as better, more-precise discovery, easier motions practice, and crystal-clear thinking about witnesses and evidence needed for trial. Topics to be covered include:

• How to develop a thoroughgoing command of both the facts and the law in your case early in the proceedings—which will become your faithful guide from discovery through trial.
  • Fact-gathering
  • Fact timelines

• How to create and use the tools you need to achieve that level of mastery, to nail the facts down cold and learn the corner of the law that your case involves backward and forward.
  • Outline of case themes
  • Outlines of legal doctrine
  • Case maps
  • Proof charts

• How to marry the facts and the law with precision and confidence—to unify your team around shared concepts, do better, more-focused discovery, make motions practice easier, and promote crystal-clear thinking about witnesses and evidence needed for trial.
• • Discovery
  • Motions practice
  • Evidentiary hearings
  • Trial

Written materials are available HERE and HERE.

2 general CLE credits approved.