On Friday morning (2/8/13) I had the pleasure of joining a Bar panel discussing criminal law issues. The panel had the grandiose title of “Criminal Law with the Legends” (usually...

Paul Harvey died in 2009, but despite that infirmity, he won the last Superbowl. Well not exactly, but he had the best commercial. Chrysler used his speech about American farmers...

I started this blog because I wanted a forum and a reason to put my ideas in some comprehensible form and on paper (or at least the electronic version). I...

Update: The FIU College of Law Trial Advocacy Program has scheduled a second presentation by Tom Mesereau at The Metro Justice Building this coming Friday, February 8, 2013. So for...

The FIU College of Law Trial Advocacy Program is presenting the second in their Storytelling Series lectures this Thursday, February 7, 2013. This is an essential event for trial lawyers,...

This is a continuation of my thesis that business books on persuasion, selling and marketing are the almost perfect guidebooks for trial lawyers. This is not to mean one must...

Do you want to be a good speaker? Do you want to give memorable closing arguments? Do you want to give exciting public speeches? It can be done, but only...

The last project I gave my law class this semester required them to master the business records rule. Each student had to introduce a telephone toll record into evidence. I...

I came across a new book called The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success by Kevin Dutton. A catchy title even for...

“We don't look alike. We don't act alike. We don't dress alike. We have different tastes in the food we eat, the books we read, the cars we drive, and...