Becoming a trial lawyer
Subtitle: a guide for the lifelong advocate
By: Rick Friedman
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Trial Guides, LLC
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Portland, Oregon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781941007426
Subjects: Trial practice
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Why be a trial lawyer?; title: Individual billing unit or trial lawyer?; title: Educating yourself; title: Do you have what it takes?; title: Your first trial; title: Beyond technique; title: You and your opponents; title: Beware of formulas; title: Do not expect perfection; title: Forget playing it safe; title: More is not better; title: Strategic detachment; title: Your lawyer status carries no weitht with the jury; title: Forget about looking good; title: Don't try to fool the jury; title: Don't assume the jury will respond to your favorite arguments; title: The limits of logic and sympathy; title: Don't gorge on experts and starve for lay witnesses; title: Spend more time with witnesses and clients; title: Jurors don't need to like you or your client; title: Embrace your conservative values; title: Silence can be your friend; title: You must ask for money; title: Superstition; title: Therapy; title: The cancer of comparison; title: Losing; title: Luck; title: Settlement; title: Physical health; title: Family and friends; title: Competitors and comrades; title: Partners and staff; title: The key to unhappiness.