As I wrote in my last post, recency, the last words the jury hears, carries persuasive power. John Guy made the most of it in his concluding sentences: “We are...

My advice to trial lawyers – throw out the trial advocacy books filled with old wives' tales, and study human behavior. The opening arguments in the Zimmerman trial are a...

The best examples for teaching trial advocacy come from actual trials. Concrete always trumps abstract for learning. The George Zimmerman trial opening statements provided a lot of grist for my...

Is it time to start lamentations on the death of the classic tough-as-nails criminal lawyer?

It is time to fashion a new approach to learning trial skills. It is time to throw out those hoary old trial advocacy books. It is time to reject the...

The Firm is proud to boast that more than half of the Firm's attorneys have been listed as 2013 Florida Super Lawyers.

I have ignored this blog for the past two months because I was acutely tied up – the vicious battle for a new trial in the Goodman case, several intense...

We were pleased to make the Southern District of Florida Blogspot today.   Check out other news articles about the Mary Estelle Curran case here.

Samuel Leibowitz August 14, 1893 – January 11, 1978 While reading an article in Thursday’s New York Times (4/4/13),I flashed back forty years deep into my public defender days. Alabama...

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience by Carmine Gallo The cliches roll off the tongue...