"If ever there was a country where eloquence was a power, it is the United States." 8 Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson 128 (1883). Nowhere is...

Preparation: More is better. Much more is much better. You never get to a point where you can let up. Never. --Tom Peters

This is one of my favorite quotes: “You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who...

As I wrote in my last post, recency, the last words the jury hears, carries persuasive power. John Guy made the most of it in his concluding sentences: “We are...

My advice to trial lawyers – throw out the trial advocacy books filled with old wives' tales, and study human behavior. The opening arguments in the Zimmerman trial are a...

The best examples for teaching trial advocacy come from actual trials. Concrete always trumps abstract for learning. The George Zimmerman trial opening statements provided a lot of grist for my...

Is it time to start lamentations on the death of the classic tough-as-nails criminal lawyer?

It is time to fashion a new approach to learning trial skills. It is time to throw out those hoary old trial advocacy books. It is time to reject the...

I have ignored this blog for the past two months because I was acutely tied up – the vicious battle for a new trial in the Goodman case, several intense...

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