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How Cross-Examination Really Won the West

March 30, 2005

Steven Lubet, the 2005 Godfrey Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Maine School of Law, Deering Ave., Portland, will give a free public lecture, "Wyatt Earp on Trial: How Cross-Examination Really Won the West," at 6 p.m., Thursday, March 31. A reception will take place at 5:15 p.m. in the Law School Lobby and the lecture will begin at 6 p.m. in the Moot Courtroom off the lobby on the first floor.

Lubet, a professor of law at Northwestern University Law School, is the author of over 70 books and articles on litigation, legal ethics, and judicial ethics. His books include "Murder in Tombstone: The Forgotten Trial of Wyatt Earp" (Yale University Press 2004), "Nothing but the Truth: Why Trial Lawyers Don't, Can't, and Shouldn't Have to Tell the Whole Truth" (New York University Press 2001) and "Judicial Conduct and Ethics" (with Alfini and Shaman, 3d Ed. 2000). His treatise, "Modern Trial Advocacy: Analysis and Practice" (National Institute for Trial Advocacy 3d Ed. 2004), has also been published in Canadian, Israeli, and Taiwanese editions.

For more information about the lecture, please call Beth Wilkins at 780-4344 or bwilkins@usm.maine.edu.

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