Tressler attorney Edwin Schwartz recently took the bench for the San Diego Inn of Court’s Trial Skills Program, which focused on Direct and Cross-Examination. In his role as a judge, Ed provided valuable guidance on how to ask appropriate questions during direct examination, frame narratives through cross-examination, and make proper objections. He is currently a workshop leader for the program. The Trial Skills Program, now in its 50^th year, teaches San Diego attorneys essential trial skills and reinforces them through practicing those skills in a courtroom setting.

Where:
San Diego Superior Court
Central Courthouse
1100 Union Street, San Diego

About the Trial Program

The Trial Program takes place on 6 evenings over 3 consecutive weeks. It includes three presentations by prominent San Diego trial attorneys and members of the judiciary, and three “hands-on” workshops facilitated by experienced workshop leaders and judges. The format is a Thursday lecture followed by a Tuesday workshop. The Trial Practice Program explores Opening Statement, Direct and Cross-Examination, and Closing Argument.

For the workshops, each participant is assigned to a specific fact pattern and paired with another student to conduct the exercises. One participant is assigned to represent the plaintiff and the other is assigned to represent the defendant. A maximum of 4 participants are assigned to each of 22 courtrooms, with each pair having one hour to practice what they learned in the lecture/demonstration, with additional time for questions and answers on each category of performance. Click here to learn more.

About Edwin Schwartz

Ed is the Managing Partner of Tressler’s San Diego, CA office. As a local San Diegan for over 30 years and an alumnus of San Diego’s California Western School of Law, Ed understands the local legal market and handles real estate, business, and employment matters across California. Ed’s practice focuses primarily on insurance defense disputes, including landlord-tenant habitability claims, premises liability, commercial tenant claims, employment matters, personal injury, wrongful death, trade secrets theft, and general civil litigation.

About the San Diego Inn of Courts

The San Diego Inn of Court was established in the 1970s by the Honorable Louis Welsh and a group of founding directors who are legends of the San Diego legal community: William G. Bailey, Hon. Richard D. Huffman, Gerald L. McMahon, and Hon. Kevin Midlam. The mission of the Inn is to advance skills and knowledge required for excellent trial advocacy and to enhance ethics and civility within the San Diego County legal community. While inspired by the American Inns of Court, the San Diego Inn of Court is unique. It alone focuses its efforts on preparing San Diego lawyers to try jury trials through two annual programs where each participant gets direct, hands-on training and individualized feedback. Award-winning trial attorneys and judges—with decades of experience—observe and critique each student as they conduct voir dire, opening statement, direct examination, cross-examination, and closing argument. Click here to learn more.

About Tressler LLP

Headquartered in Chicago, with ten offices located in six states, Tressler LLP is a national law firm comprised primarily of attorneys who devote their practice to the representation of the insurance industry in coverage analysis and resolution, litigation, underwriting consultation, product development, claims management, and reinsurance.

In addition, Tressler has one of the most experienced and multi-faceted government law practices in Illinois, and has attorneys who represent clients in commercial litigation, defense litigation, corporate transactions, employment law and litigation, intellectual property, and condominium and common interest community association law.

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