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Famous Trial Advocacy Educator James McElhaney Retires

Those of you who went to Case Western Law School or attended law school anywhere in the United States may remember James McElhaney. McElhaney is nationally known for teaching trial advocacy, writing for both the ABA Journal and Litigation, authoring McElhaney's Trial Notebook and other books, and producing several trial advocacy cassettes the Law Library is proud to own. The August 2012 issue of the ABA Journal profiles Mr. McElhaney upon his retirement from teaching and writing.

Cleveland-Marshall Law School to Open High-Tech Trial Courtroom

Having raised almost all of the funds it had hoped, Cleveland-Marshall is opening a brand new, $1 million dollar trial courtroom with high-tech like that used in the local federal district courthouse. CSU plans to use the room to educate students about the trial process and rent the room to lawyers and jury consulting firms who want to conduct mock trials and/or practice witness testimony. Apparently, naming rights are still available for the room itself and several components of the room, including the judge's chambers and the jury deliberation room. Interestingly, this room is unique among Ohio law schools and rare across the country, but Jones Day's Cleveland office has a trial courtroom of its own that it uses for practicing for oral arguments, among other things.