Publisher's Synopsis
Unlike any other book for trial lawyers, this book covers the gamut-updated practical advice about every aspect of a trial lawyer's skill set. In a straightforward, approachable style, the author, a veteran trial lawyer and mentor, provides numerous pearls of wisdom, practice checklists, and what effective litigators eventually learn on the job. This portable mentor will fast-track any trial lawyer's career.
Litigation is a challenging profession. It demands not only intellectual ability but attention to detail, perseverance, creative problem-solving, persuasiveness, focus, integrity, and the ability to press the client's position with zeal while maintaining sufficient detachment to provide the objective, independent advice the client requires. How to Succeed as a Trial Lawyer, Third Edition is an invaluable guide to each of these requirements and more.
Topics covered:
- Effective and ethical use of artificial intelligence
- Strategies for in-person and remote depositions, mediations, and arbitrations
- Compliance with updated ethical rules
- Strategic implementation of the most recent amendments to the Federal Rules of Evidence
- Dealing with clients and others in a trial lawyer's professional life
- Principles applicable to all legal writing
- Drafting emails, letters, internal memos, pleadings, motions, and briefs
- All aspects of discovery, including e-discovery
- How to try a case, from jury selection through closing argument
- The art of persuasion
- Dealing with ethical issues
- Dealing with stress
- Marketing a law practice
