Trial as Teaching: How to Make Fact-Finders Cross the Bridge
What You Will Learn
- Attend this program and leave with practical tools for framing evidence, structuring arguments, and presenting your cases in ways that are not only persuasive but cognitively durable.
What You Will Learn
- Attend this program and leave with practical tools for framing evidence, structuring arguments, and presenting your cases in ways that are not only persuasive but cognitively durable.
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Price
$60
for CLE/CJE Credit - MEMBER (Philadelphia Bar Association)
$80
for CLE/CJE Credit - NON-MEMBER
$35
for NON-CLE Credit/Law Student - Members (Materials Included)
$45
for NON-CLE Credit/Law Student - NON-Member
60 minutes
Date Published
March 26, 2026
Publisher
Philadelphia Bar Association
Subjects
Civil Litigation, Communication, Criminal Law, Other, Skills Training - Negotiations, Trial Tips & Tactics
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Trial as Teaching: How to Make Fact-Finders Cross the Bridge
Program Originally Presented Thursday, March 26, 2026
We often describe trial lawyers as advocates, storytellers, strategists, and performers. But at its core, trial practice is an act of teaching. Jurors (and sometimes judges) begin a case with limited knowledge, preconceived mental models, and competing narratives. The effective trial lawyer must build a cognitive bridge to guide fact-finders safely and persuasively from where they are to where the lawyer wants them to be.
This CLE explores trial practice through the lens of learning science and cognitive psychology. Participants will examine how people process information, how prior knowledge shapes interpretation of evidence, why attention and memory are limited resources, and how structured feedback and repetition influence belief formation. The program will translate these principles into concrete courtroom strategies.
Attend this program and leave with practical tools for framing evidence, structuring arguments, and presenting your cases in ways that are not only persuasive but cognitively durable.
Featured Speaker:
Marian G. Braccia, Esq. (she/her)
Practice Professor of Law
Director, LL.M. in Trial Advocacy Program
Temple University Beasley School of Law
0382ODV
Program Titles and Supporting Materials
This program contains the following components:
Media Files
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Credit
If applicable, you may obtain credit in multiple jurisdictions simultaneously for this program (see pending/approved list below). Where applicable, credit will be only awarded to a paid registrant completing all the requirements of the program as determined by the selected accreditation authority.
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Join the self-paced program from your office, home, or hotel room using a computer and high speed internet connection. You may start and stop the program at your convenience, continue where you left off, and review supporting materials as often as you like. Please note: Internet Explorer is no longer a supported browser. We recommend using Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Safari for best results.
Technical Requirements
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