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Becoming a trial lawyer : a guide for the lifelong advocate
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Title
Becoming a trial lawyer : a guide for the lifelong advocate / Rick Friedman.
ISBN
9781941007426 (pbk)
1941007422 (pbk)
Edition
Second edition.
Publication
Portland, Oregon : Trial Guides, LLC, [2015]
Physical Description
xx, 223 pages ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 17, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Why be a trial lawyer?
Individual billing unit or trial lawyer?
Educating yourself
Do you have what it takes?
Your first trial
Beyond technique
You and your opponents
Beware of formulas
Do not expect perfection
Forget playing it safe
More is not better
Strategic detachment
Your lawyer status carries no weitht with the jury
Forget about looking good
Don't try to fool the jury
Don't assume the jury will respond to your favorite arguments
The limits of logic and sympathy
Don't gorge on experts and starve for lay witnesses
Spend more time with witnesses and clients
Jurors don't need to like you or your client
Embrace your conservative values
Silence can be your friend
You must ask for money
Superstition
Therapy
The cancer of comparison
Losing
Luck
Settlement
Physical health
Family and friends
Competitors and comrades
Partners and staff
The key to unhappiness.
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