There was a photograph entered into evidence in the Casey Anthony trial on Friday, June 10, 2011. The photo shows Caylee Anthony and her mother Casey. An expert witness used...

I bet you thought only criminal suspects got immunity deals. Not even close. Prosecutors have better immunity than anyone else. And the Attorney General, our chief law enforcement official, gets...

Litigation is a team sport. In sports we know one star player is not enough to win. Even the great Lebron James can't win without a team supporting him. Lebron...

In the blue corner, we have a 62-year-old economist, head of the IMF, putative president of France. I can’t tell his height and weight from the photos and TV, but...

“How glorious to be an American citizen. In so many countries, the rights of citizens are not worth the paper they are printed on. But here, any citizen—good, bad, indifferent,...

My heroes have always been cowboys, just not the old western type, but the mavericks, the risk takers, the crusaders, the impracticable, the crazy ones, and the seriously politically incorrect....

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...