Comments on: Objection! Helping Clinical Students Practice Trial Skills http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2010/01/14/objection-helping-clinical-students-practice-trial-skills/ A Vision and a Road Map Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:22:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Elmer Masters http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2010/01/14/objection-helping-clinical-students-practice-trial-skills/#comment-2199 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:19:38 +0000 http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/?p=1171#comment-2199 You may want to take a look at the CALI Lessons in Evidence, including these Lessons listed at http://u.cali.org/ryk4 – “Impeachment and Rehabilitation of Witnesses”, “Character Evidence Under Federal Rules”, “Survey of Evidence”, “The Hearsay Rule & Its Exceptions”. The Lesson are available to Albany students as part of the school’s CALI membership.
In addition you can use the LessonLink feature to generate unique, trackable URLs for the Lessons to track student performance. See details for Lessonlink at http://www.cali.org/lessonlink.

]]> By: Samantha Howell http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2010/01/14/objection-helping-clinical-students-practice-trial-skills/#comment-2168 Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:45:43 +0000 http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/?p=1171#comment-2168 I just finished playing a few rounds of the Objection! demo and it seems to be a better alternative to the one we have been using (You Be the Judge). My only criticism is that you have to answer either all the questions right or in speed-demon time to advance to the next round and it doesn’t seem to give you much time to read the question and answer. But, on the other hand, that’s pretty realistic, isn’t it?

There are decent explanations and it lists the possible objections for you, so I wasn’t faced with the problem w/ You Be The Judge where I was trying to guess how to phrase the objection. Also, this game allows for multiple different objections to some of the questions. So far, I think this is a better option than You Be The Judge and, even if a clinic student doesn’t advance, a couple rounds of the game should get them brushed up on objections fairly well.

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