Winning at the Beginning: The Untapped Power of Voir Dire, Opening, and Beyond

Winning at the Beginning is a practical approach to solving some of the most common litigation problems by starting your case with a strong opening and a well-chosen jury. Keith Mitnik, one of America’s leading litigators, is the senior trial counsel at Morgan & Morgan, America’s largest personal injury law firm. Keith mentors the firm's lawyers in trial preparation and practice. Keith has many years of proven success in preempting shady defense tactics. In Winning at the Beginning, he shares his proven strategies and tactics with you. On disc one, Keith guides the listener through identifying and curtailing jury bias during voir dire. Using stories from his own cases, he gives a three-step process that involves educating jurors, identifying those with bias, and asking the right questions to establish grounds for cause challenges. On disc two, he confronts opening statement, providing three alternatives to eating the defense’s favored facts at the very beginning of the case: elimin