Last week I discussed how documentaries teach us to use different types of media to keep the juries attention. Today I go the next step and show how Oliver Stone...

I am writing of concrete details, not building materials. I am a strong believer in making our presentations as concrete as possible. The problem with lawyers is that we make...

PBS recently repeated two episodes of Ken Burns' epic masterpiece The Civil War, and it motivated me to write this post. I started this blog as a place to put...

If I taught a course on how to be a successful criminal, the books of Thomas Perry would be assigned reading. Perry is a master strategist and game player who...

While glancing through a pile of newspapers, I came across a review of "Crime: Stories" by Ferdinand von Schirach. He is a German criminal defense lawyer writing about a few...

One reason, among many, why I love our adversary system of justice is that it gives us one public place where we can rationally and politely debate very serious matters....

Not long ago I met a former client and some friends for lunch at the Bel Air Hotel in Los Angeles. The former client regaled the table about her horrible...

Imagine your worst nightmare. An ex-lover testifying in open court, with all the salacious details spread around the world, that you transformed yourself into a genetically engineered replicant who was...

Lozano. Just the name conjures up a kaleidoscope of memories. A different time in my life. I still carry the scars of those battles. They so desperately wanted, no needed,...

I have a confession to make: some of my best ideas have come from clients. This shouldn’t be a shock since who knows the case better than the client? Yet...