Vince Bugliosi, who first achieved fame as the Manson Family prosecutor and then as a first rate author, died June 6, 2015. His true legacy is the books he left...

Samuel Leibowitz August 14, 1893 – January 11, 1978 While reading an article in Thursday’s New York Times (4/4/13),I flashed back forty years deep into my public defender days. Alabama...

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience by Carmine Gallo The cliches roll off the tongue...

I started this blog because I wanted a forum and a reason to put my ideas in some comprehensible form and on paper (or at least the electronic version). I...

This is a continuation of my thesis that business books on persuasion, selling and marketing are the almost perfect guidebooks for trial lawyers. This is not to mean one must...

Do you want to be a good speaker? Do you want to give memorable closing arguments? Do you want to give exciting public speeches? It can be done, but only...

I love thrillers. My only dangerous addiction. When I find a new thriller writer it makes my day. A couple of months ago I read a review of Deon Meyer’s...

Last Saturday was Bloom’s day. Yes, I bet some of you missed it, so mark it on your calendar for next year. I took the day off to celebrate the...

here is a good lesson detailed by Janet Maslin in her review of "Bed" by David Whitehouse. In the New York Times, Maslin, one of our more perceptive book reviewers,...

Yogi Berra allegedly said: "You can observe a lot just by watching." Brilliant, if he said that intentionally. Once the quote became famous, he embraced it and wrote a book...