Trial Practice category: 67 books
Success Without Victory
Lost Legal Battles and the Long Road to Justice in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Winners and losers. Success and failure. Victory and defeat. American culture places an extremely high premium on success, and firmly equates it with winning. In politics, sports, business, and the courtroom, we have a passion to win and are terrified of losing.
Instead of viewing success and failure...
The Way of the Lawyer
Strategies and Tactics for Negotiations, Presentations, and Litigation
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
This engaging book is your battle manual for the art of war in the legal arena. Chris Scott Graham shares the skills you'll need—developed and honed by trial lawyers over the years—to succeed in the battles you'll undertake on behalf of your clients. More than mere knowledge of legal principles...
Winning the Jury's Attention
Presenting Evidence from Voir Dire to Closing
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Today's jurors, consumed in their own demanding personal and professional lives, are not going to hand over their undivided attention in the courtroom. Author Trey Cox presents seven principles for communicating effectively with a jury.Implementing these practical techniques through each phrase of trial...
by Paul W. Grimm, Charles S. Fax, Paul Mark Sandler
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Discovery Problems and Their Solutions, Third Edition teaches effective discovery. Judge Grimm and Messrs. Fax and Sandler interweave practical advice with case law and keen observations. Important developments since the Second Edition are looked at. This Third Edition also continues its focus on...
Lawyers' Poker
52 Lessons that Lawyers Can Learn from Card Players
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2006
Great poker players are master tacticians. Not only do they calculate odds with lightning speed and astonishing precision, but they also cunningly anticipate and manipulate the actions of their adversaries. In short, they boast skills that every lawyer can envy. This highly entertaining work might...
by Louise Arbour
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002
In 1996, Louise Arbour was appointed by the Security Council of the United Nations as Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. Reflecting on these experiences, she argues in War Crimes and the Culture of Peace that the level of public awareness...
Legal Education
Simulation in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
The importance of simulation in education, specifically in legal subjects, is here discussed and explored within this innovative collection. Demonstrating how simulation can be constructed and developed for learning, teaching and assessment, the text argues that simulation is a pedagogically valuable...
The Moral Compass of the American Lawyer
Truth, Justice, Power, and Greed
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
These are perilous times for Americans who need access to the legal system. Too many lawyers blatantly abuse power and trust, engage in reckless ethical misconduct, grossly unjust billing practices, and dishonesty disguised as client protection. All this has undermined the credibility of lawyers and...
Three Strikes and You’re Out!
The Chronicle of America’s Toughest Anti-Crime Law
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
This is the story of the toughest sentencing law in America as chronicled by those who were intimately involved in the fight to see it enacted, and who believe in it passionately.
It is the story of one family’s heartbreak, of behind-the-scenes...
by Geoffrey Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2014
This is a memoir of the professional life of an Australian Babyboomer as a lawyer.The author has practised law for more than forty years as a barrister or solicitor, and has presided over one or another statutory tribunal for nearly thirty years. Of late he has concentrated on his writing in history,...
Preparing Witnesses
A Practical Guide for Lawyers and Their Clients
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
This completely revised and updated fourth edition of Preparing Witnesses: A Practical Guide for Lawyers and Their Clients, will improve witness preparation skills.This book is an invaluable aid in refining skills for delivering witness testimony with an impact.
Fighting for Their Lives
Inside the Experience of Capital Defense Attorneys
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
How do attorneys who represent clients facing the death penalty cope with the stress and trauma of their work? Through conversations with twenty of the most experienced and dedicated post-conviction capital defenders in the United States, Fighting for Their Lives explores this emotional territory...
Broken Scales
Reflections on Injustice
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
However rare, some injustices are “objectively” determined, often through DNA evidence, which allows us to squarely establish innocence despite a conviction. But the stories selected for this book represent a cross-section: some are such that (almost) every reader will see and acknowledge the...
The Lawyers
Perfect Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
The book is a legal and political crime thriller. It is also an invaluable resource for lawyers.