Counseling Clients for Keeps: With Clarity, Candor & Connection through Bad News and Good
December 3, 2009
(8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.)
Lawyers Present ... So Present Well
December 3, 2009
(1:30 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.)
Writing Legally: Judge Painter's Rules for Plain Legal Writing
December 4, 2009
(8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.)
Client Troubles? It's Time for Psychiatric Advice
Weaver Institute for Law & Psychiatry/Center for Practice CLE Event
December 18, 2009
(8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.)
Making Mediators Workshop
(2 Thursday Evenings & 2 Fridays)
Spring Semester
Dates to be determined
Actor's Directions for Award Winning Trial Performance
Four Fall Tuesday Evenings
Writing Legally: Judge Painter's Rules for Plain Legal Writing
October 2, 2009
(8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.)
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Actor’s Directions for Award Winning Trial Performance
A Four Evening CLE Series
“Starring”
Rocco Dal Vera
Professor of Drama at UC’s College Conservatory of Music
Acclaimed Actor, Voice and Speech Coach, and Author
At the University of Cincinnati College of Law
Fourth Evening: October 6, 2009
5:30 – 9:00 p.m. (including sandwich supper)
The Closing Drama:
Final Plot, Presence, and Persuasion
Agenda
5:30 – 5:45 Introduction: Soliloquies and Sandwiches
5:45 – 6:30 The Drama and Power of Plot Shifts
6:30–7:15 Essential Style: Presence, Movement, Voice, Tension &Timing
Faculty presentations & performance
7:15 – 7:45 Break
7:30 – 9:00 Last Chance at Dramatic Persuasion
Participant exercises & feedback
Professor Rocco Dal Vera will present and demonstrate acting, movement and vocal techniques and provide feedback, Professor Marjorie Corman Aaron will facilitate discussion of attorneys’ perspectives.