Kenya Trial Advocacy : Categories of Trial Advocacy

The skills of trial advocacy can be broken into two categories:
1.skills that accomplish individual tasks (tactical skills) such as selecting jurors, delivering opening statements and closing arguments, and examining witnesses, and
2. those skills thatintegrate the individual actions to achieve greater effects and to drive unfolding events toward the advocate’s desired outcome (strategy) .
Mostlaw schooltrial advocacy courses focus on tactical skills, though some integrate basic methods of strategic planning. Some academics have expressed disfavor with advanced strategic techniques because of the imbalance they create, especially against attorneys who are unaware of them. Proponents of advanced strategic techniques argue that these methods are the only effective means to counter the already-existing imbalances in the system, as betweenindigentdefendants and the state, and between working-class plaintiffs and well-resourced,wealthy corporations .