I waited a while to write this post about Bill Clinton’s speech to the DNC. I wanted to wait and ruminate on it rather than praise it just because I...

The last phase of the final arguments I am interested in is the prosecution rebuttal. Many prosecutors don’t specifically prepare for the rebuttal and lose one of their greatest advantages....

Here is my analysis of Chernoff’s first few minutes. It seems chopped up because that is how Chernoff speaks. He darts from phrase to phrase without finishing his thoughts. He...

The children. Prosecutor David Walgren employed a clever method of humanizing Michael Jackson by describing the pain of his death through the eyes of his children. I was surprised to...

There is a lot of material to go through so I am breaking it up into the parts I think important. I am starting right at the beginning with Walgren’s...

here is a good lesson detailed by Janet Maslin in her review of "Bed" by David Whitehouse. In the New York Times, Maslin, one of our more perceptive book reviewers,...

Vest's Dog plaqueThe test of a great poet is the ability to craft a delicate sonnet. The structure of a sonnet requires a strict meter and cadence all contained within...

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...

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...