Law Practice
Feb. 19, 2020
Top 10 tips for preparing and presenting your opening statement at trial
As you stand before a jury delivering your opening statement, the last thing you should feel is that you can’t win. Every trial is winnable.
Byron J. McLain
Partner
Foley & Lardner LLP
Phone: (213) 972-4780
Email: bmclain@foley.com
Harvard Univ Law School; Cambridge MA
Byron is a white collar defense and heath care litigation partner and recently served as the Health Care Fraud Coordinator in the Major Frauds Section at the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles and as an assistant United States attorney from July 2012 to November 2018.
"You can't win!" Sentiments in "Rocky IV" from a loving wife to her husband as he prepared to box the Russian antagonist Ivan Drago. Rocky responded solemnly -- "maybe I can't win. But to beat me, he is going to have to kill me. And to kill me... he has got to be willing to die himself."
Hopefully nothing in the courtroom is as dramatic as these scripted lines from one of Ame...
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