From the Ten Minute Mentor site, offered for free from the Texas Bar CLE and the Texas Young Lawyers Association: "Irving Younger's Ten Commandments of Cross-Examination," by Robert Witte.
It's an audio-video web presentation that's simple to watch on your computer. First, Witte talks about whether you should cross-examine at all, then he examines each of Irving's ten rules.
Although cross-examination certainly doesn't begin and end with Irving's ten commandments, they're rules that every trial lawyer should know. If you want a written list, you can find it here (pdf).
Good points, but the one about "don't allow the witness to explain" gives me pause. Doesn't that give your opponent a chance, on re-direct, to make you look like an ass because there was a perfectly reasonable explanation, only you wouldn't let the witness say it?
Posted by: mythago | June 25, 2005 at 01:15 AM
Do you know where or how I can listen to Irving Younger’s presentation on cross examination (without paying $895 to NITA)?
Posted by: Lou Altman | September 24, 2009 at 06:45 AM
Try a law library.
Posted by: Evan Schaeffer | September 24, 2009 at 11:51 AM