On Saturday May 12, 2012 I had the pleasure of presenting the FACDL life time achievement award to my former boss Phillip Hubbart. I have written of him before in...

Below is the video from Kobre & Kim LLP Center for Trial Advocacy’s presentation of “Persuasive Closing Arguments – A Demonstration and Discussion of a Closing Argument in the Helio...

There was a time when human memory systems were treasured and cultivated. The technology of memorization was taught in the rhetoric classes and was deemed to be integral to public...

I am always on the lookout for a fresh and unique way of describing something, especially when it can take it from abstract to concrete. Here is one from today's...

I haven’t blogged for at least three weeks because I have been fully engaged in John Goodman’s DUI manslaughter trial. But now it is time to begin anew.

Arthur Jordan used a counterfeit badge and posed as an on-duty U.S. Marshal in order to carry firearms onto commercial airplanes while on personal travel. He did this nine times....

In my last post I criticized Justice Scalia for the last sentence of his dissent in the Maples case. “Because a faithful application of those precedents leads to the conclusion...

My partner Howard came rushing into my office: “Did you read the Scalia dissent?” I confessed I had no earthly idea what he was referring to so he threw it...

Dr. Robert Ignasiak was charged in a 54-count indictment with health care fraud and illegally dispensing controlled substances. He was found guilty and sentenced to 292 months' imprisonment. The opinion...

Since my last post on McQueary, Joe Paterno gave a press interview to Sally Jenkins of The Washington Post. According to the reporter, Paterno said that McQueary sat at Paterno’s...