Description:
As lawyers, we make arguments on behalf of our clients every day, but how often do we pause to consider the fundamental principles of advocacy that can help make our arguments as persuasive as possible to our intended audience? Experienced trial and appellate lawyer, law professor and co-author of the book “To Prove, To Please, To Move: Timeless Principles of Legal Advocacy,” Peter Afrasiabi explains how you can use the fundamental insights of Aristotle, Cicero and other great advocates to make your best arguments on behalf of your clients.
Speaker:
Peter Afrasiabi, Partner, One LLP, Newport Beach, CA
Peter is a founding partner at One, LLP, and focuses his practice on copyright, patent, trademark and entertainment litigation. In addition, he is a professor and the Director of the Appellate Clinic at University of California, Irvine School of Law. Peter graduated from University of California, Los Angeles and University of Southern California Gould School of Law.