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Winning Voir Dire

Crafting & Executing Through Case Framing

Published by Consumer Attorneys of San Diego
and Canadian Caucus of AAJ
Learning Objectives
  • Case framing, jury connection, and empowerment
  • Selecting your good jurors by pre-habing/walking off your bad jurors for cause
  • Owning bad facts without sponsoring them
  • Normalizing the negative - creating a safe space for jurors to be honest about their biases
  • The line between pre-conditioning and discovering biases
  • Sequencing





Summary

Case framing is key to winning voir dire. Regardless of whether mini openings are allowed in your jurisdiction, you will learn skills, case framing, and voir dire techniques that you can immediately apply in your practice from intake through trial. Learn how to pre-hab/walk off bad jurors for cause, create a safe space for jurors to be honest and authentic about their truths and biases, own bad facts without sponsoring them and more. This program will help you simplify, sharpen and laser focus your case framing, presentation, and jury selection questioning. 

Sarah Havens will cover mini openings/framing, voir dire and opening statements, with carefully selected outlines and teaching points drawing on her experience as a National Institute of Trial Advocacy trial skills faculty instructor, Trial Lawyers Collage graduate, and her personal trial experience. Whether guru or beginner, you will leave with valuable tools for your next jury trial.
 

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Presenters
Sarah Havens
Managing Partner & Trial Lawyer - Havens Injury Law

Sarah Havens is an experienced first chair trial lawyer, law firm partner and CEO, with a proven track record for obtaining... Read More

Bo Fraser, Ph.D.
Trial Consultant

Dr. Bo Fraser is a nationally recognized trial consultant who partners with many of the country’s top trial lawyers to shape... Read More


Originally Published
December 11, 2025

Program Titles and Supporting Materials
This program contains the following components:

  • Media Files
  • Winning Voir Dire: Crafting & Executing Through Case Framing - Video

  • Downloadable Files
  • Winning Voir Dire: Crafting & Executing Through Case Framing - Slide Handout
  • Voir Dire Rules - Handout

How To Attend
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
You may access this course on a computer or mobile device with high speed internet (iPhones require iOS 10 or higher). Recommended browsers are Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.

Credit
If applicable, you may obtain credit in multiple jurisdictions simultaneously for this program (see pending/approved list below). If electing credit for this program, registrants in jurisdictions not listed below will receive a Certificate of Completion that may or may not meet credit requirements in other jurisdictions. 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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