The Legendary Larry Pozner on Cross-Examination
Date: Apr 30, 2026 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Location: Online
Member Price: $211.00
Non-Member Price: $264.00
Section Price: $0.00
Areas of Law: Civil, Criminal Law
Earn up to 6.7 credits! (More Information)
Keynote
Moderator
Presenters
- Larry Pozner, Esq.
- Pozner on Cross, Denver
The legendary Larry Pozner returns for a one-of-a-kind seminar on cross-examination. Pozner on Cross: The Chapter Method, is a unique and entertaining program that teaches the most efficient methods to recognize, write, and deliver powerful cross-examinations. Building on principles of neuroscience and behavioral psychology, Pozner will explain how to make cross into storytelling, and how those stories will control witnesses while causing jurors to focus on the facts of out choosing. These modern techniques allow us to use the prosecution witness to prove much of the case, and potentially eliminate the need to call the defendant or other defense witnesses.
Pozner on Cross: The Chapter Method, is an outgrowth of Pozner’s book Cross Examination: Science and Techniques (Lexis 3rd edition 2018, Pozner and Dodd). His book and seminar revolutionized the profession’s view of the purposes and methods of modern cross. Here, in one day, is the speedily learned and easily applied method to teaching the best facts, through a preparation system that dramatically increases our confidence in trial.
Program Agenda:
9:00 | The science behind Chapter Method cross-examinations
- Behavioral economics: how people take shortcuts to decisions
- Cognitive neuroscience: how the brain processes information and can tire
- Cognitive psychology: how the brain prefers to acquire information
How storytelling wins cases
- Construction of a cross-examination story
- How jurors harmonize with the emotion of a story
- Chunking facts to aid understanding.
10:15 | Break
10:30 | The Chapter Method of cross-examination
- How to build chapters of cross with examples
- The mental economics of chapter method preparation and presentation
- Building chapters to achieve factual goals.
Constructing chapter bundles
- The advantages of telling big stories through linked smaller stories
- Viewing an event as a series of smaller events
- Examples of chapter bundles
12:00 | Lunch
12:45 | Constructive cross-examination
- Methods and advantages of cross-centered preparation
- How constructive cross-examination wins cases.
- Asking safe questions when we do not have the fact in discovery.
Sequences of cross-examination
- Placing chapters in a persuasive order
- How to begin and end the cross
- Staying on track when witnesses evade
2:00 | Break
2:15 | Page preparation of chapters of cross-examination
- The architecture of a page of Chapter Method cross
- Page format samples
- Preparing for instant impeachments
The only three rules of cross: Forming questions that control the witness.
- Delivering questions that deprive the witness of time to deceive
- Forming questions that shrink the field of evasion
- Group facts to use opponent’s witnesses to tell our stories
Controlling anxiety
- How prepared chapters make cross more predictable
- Using Chapter Method cross to ease juror anxiety
- Inducing anxiety in the deceptive witness
4:05 | Adjourn
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