II.   RELEVANCE: Its Definition and Limitations

• Logical and legal relevance: Rules 401, 402 and 403
• Background facts
• Effect of stipulations
• Subsequent remedial measures

III.  WITNESS Examination

• The difference between refreshing and recorded recollection
• Impeachment by contradiction - collateral matters
• Limitations on impeachment of own witness
• Prior convictions to impeach the corporation
• Impeaching the hearsay declarant
• The missing witness presumption
• Summation comment on witness testimony
• Sequestration of witnesses
• Summaries of witness testimony

IV.  EXPERT Witnesses

• History: periods of liberal admissibility; retrenchment and uncertainty
• The subject matter of expert testimony
• Proper basis for expert opinion
• Foundation formalities
• Ultimate issue testimony
• Pretrial discovery of the expert
• The Daubert - Joiner - Kumho revolution
• The impact of amendments to Federal Rule 702 and 703 criteria for admissibility of expert testimony
• Learned treatises

V.   Hearsay

• Definition: what it is and what it isn’t
• Privity admissions
• Statement against interest
• Prior consistent statements
• Public records
• Residual hearsay exception
• Confrontation: Crawford and its progeny