Professor Ohlbaum to present the Lou Ashe Lecture at Pacific McGeorge

Pacific McGeorge presents

Prof. Edward Ohlbaum
Prof. of Law and Director, Trial Advocacy & Clinical Legal Education, Temple Law School

Distinguished Advocate in Residence, March 6-9, 2006

Prof. Ohlbaum will present the school's Lou Ashe Lecture on Thursday, March 9 - 5:00 p.m. in the Courtroom, 3200 Fifth Avenue

"What Every Lawyer Needs to Know About 'Authentic' Advocacy:
How Not to Get Caught in the Courtroom With Your Character Down."

Juries identify clients with their lawyers - the lawyer is the medium for the client's message. The beauty and the challenge of a trial lawyer's work is that the lawyer's ethos and character are continually displayed in an arena where not much can be hidden and almost all can be questioned. In the unforgiving courtroom spotlight, a lawyer's shoddy behavior will provide the opponent with explicit and implicit opportunities for inference and argument against him. By both example and speech, the "authentic" advocate humbles her adversary and lays claim to the judge and the jury.

Come hear Prof. Ohlbaum on:

• Taking on Rambo in court
• The lawyer as the medium
• If you stumble, make it part of the dance
• Earning trust as courtroom currency
• The advocate's built-in correctional system
• Making your opponent pay in court for unprofessional conduct

Formerly a Senior Trial Lawyer with the Defender Association of Philadelphia, where he tried 75 jury trials involving major felonies and hundreds of non-jury trials, Prof. Ohlbaum has established Temple's Trial Advocacy Program as the repeatedly recognized top program in the nation. The Temple Program has twice won the American College of Trial Lawyers' Emil Gumpert Award for Excellence in Teaching of Trial Advocacy. Ohlbaum was awarded the Jacobson Award by the Roscoe Pound Foundation for "demonstrated excellence in teaching trial advocacy," and in 1998 he was co-recipient of the Philadelphia Bar Association's Beccaria Award "in recognition of his contribution to the cause of justice and the advancement of legal education.

This program has been approved for Minimum Continuing Legal Education credit by the State Bar of California in the amount of 1 hour of which 1 hour will apply to legal ethics; 0 hour(s) will apply to prevention, detection and treatment of substance abuse and emotional distress; and 0 hour(s) will apply to the elimination of bias in the legal profession. McGeorge School of Law certifies that this activity conforms to the standards for approved educational activities prescribed by the rules and regulations of The State Bar of California governing minimum continuing legal education.