Product Description

Judge Paul A. Chernoff valued his role as a teacher. Every year he would spend a week teaching new lawyers the skills they would need in the courtroom during MCLE’s Trial Advocacy Workshop. In his memory, we have put together a program that focuses on a part of that training: the opening and closing arguments.

Leaders in the field will demonstrate opening and closing arguments in a civil and criminal case, while our panel of experts critique their arguments and offer suggestions for everyone watching to improve their opening statements and closing arguments.

In-person attendees are invited to join us for a post-program reception to speak to our presenters and critiquers one-on-one and remember our friend, Judge Paul Chernoff. 

**All proceeds from this program will go to the Hon. Paul A. Chernoff Scholarship Fund.**

https://www.mcle.org/give/fund/bio/chernoff

Agenda & Materials

• 2:00pm - 2:20pm

  Statements to Remember: Opening & Closing Arguments: Civil Defendant Opening Statement

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  Leonard H. Kesten, Esq., Brody, Hardoon, Perkins & Kesten LLP , Boston
  
• 2:20pm - 2:40pm

  Statements to Remember: Opening & Closing Arguments: Civil Plaintiff Opening Statement

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  Michael Glennon, Esq., Brody, Hardoon, Perkins & Kesten LLP , Boston
  
• 2:40pm - 3:00pm

  Statements to Remember: Opening & Closing Arguments: Critique of the Statements

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  Hon. John C. Cratsley, JAMS , Concord
  Hon. Beverly J. Cannone, Superior Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts , Boston
  Jay Lynch, III, Esq., Lynch & Lynch, PC , South Easton
  Sandra Gant, Esq., Federal Public Defender Office , Boston
  
• 3:00pm - 3:20pm

  Statements to Remember: Opening & Closing Arguments: Criminal Defense Closing Statement

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  Joanne M. Daley, Esq., Federal Public Defender Office , Providence
  
• 3:20pm - 3:40pm

  Statements to Remember: Opening & Closing Arguments: Criminal Prosecution Closing Statement

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  Mark Tan Lee, Esq., Suffolk District Attorney's Office, Commonwealth of Massachusetts , Boston
  
• 3:40pm - 4:00pm

  Statements to Remember: Opening & Closing Arguments: Critique of the Statements 2

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  Hon. John C. Cratsley, JAMS , Concord
  Hon. Beverly J. Cannone, Superior Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts , Boston
  Jay Lynch, III, Esq., Lynch & Lynch, PC , South Easton
  Sandra Gant, Esq., Federal Public Defender Office , Boston
  
• 4:00pm - 5:00pm

  Reception for In-Person Attendees

Chair

Faculty