With great sadness I read of the death of advocacy in these pages on Dec. 23rd.  Derrick Morales was given 40 minutes for his final argument including 20 seconds for...

Closing argument can be a powerful tool to assist the jury in considering what are sometimes very different sides of a case.  Below is Roy Black’s closing argument in the...

“...the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can...

At least 311 innocent people were condemned by “commonsense.” There are probably a lot more languishing in our dungeons, but at least that many convicted inmates have been exonerated through...

Few doubt that General Douglas MacArthur was a brilliant man. He graduated first in his class at West Point. He earned over 100 military decorations from the U.S. and other...

How does a poet fit into this series? Edgar Lee masters was not an ivory tower academic – he was a lawyer who advocated for the poor and powerless just...

I watch Sports Center almost every morning while getting dressed. Boston Red Sox outfielder Shane Victorino, in an interview, said “y’know” – 72 times in three minutes. Yes I counted...

Henry Ward Beecher: “Not until human nature is other than what it is, will the function of the living voice -- the greatest force on earth among men -- cease...

"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...

Trial lawyers start working on their final argument from the first day on a case and keep working it until they get up on their feet and start talking. They...