Becoming a Trial Lawyer Review
I'm hard pressed to think of a more useful tool for starting out in practice than Rick Friedman's Becoming a Trial Lawyer. There's the classic nightmare: you're speaking to a...
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Becoming a Trial Lawyer Review
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Trial Lawyers and the Issue of ObjectionsTrial Lawyers and the Issue of Objections
Law schools teach that you should object to every objectionable question, and raise every issue in litigation. Following your law school education on these issues risks you losing your clients'...
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Becoming a Trial Lawyer: Forget Playing it SafeBecoming a Trial Lawyer: Forget Playing it Safe
The way to play it safe in law school was to raise and explain every possible issue. If five arguments supported a particular result, you had better discuss them all....
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Becoming a Trial Lawyer: Trying your First Case
Becoming a Trial Lawyer: Trying your First Case
Trial lawyers have no established standards for determining when someone is ready to try a case. As you wrestle with the question of whether you are ready, remember that this...
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Becoming a Trial Lawyer: Beyond Technique
Becoming a Trial Lawyer: Beyond Technique
Lawyers with nearly flawless technique can lose case after case, while lawyers who appear clumsy and bumbling can win repeatedly. To be a good trial lawyer, be willing and able...
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Announcing A New Relationship between Trial Guides and AAJAnnouncing A New Relationship between Trial Guides and AAJ
Trial Guides is proud to announce an exciting new relationship with the American Association for Justice ("AAJ") as publisher for future AAJ Press publications. This relationship continues Trial Guides’ tradition...
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ATLA review of Rick Friedman's Becoming a Trial Lawyer
ATLA review of Rick Friedman's Becoming a Trial Lawyer
Book Review: Clarence Darrow once said, "The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries." Increasingly, trial lawyers find it more and more difficult to follow...
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Plaintiff Magazine Reviews Rick Friedman's Becoming a Trial Lawyer
Plaintiff Magazine Reviews Rick Friedman's Becoming a Trial Lawyer
Book Review: In his new and enthralling book, Becoming a Trial Lawyer, Inner Circle of Advocates member, Rick Friedman, presents not so much the by-now-common memoir of a dazzlingly successful...
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Teaching Future Trial Lawyers
Teaching Future Trial Lawyers
If you are a professor of trial advocacy, you train the trial lawyers of the future. While many books purport to educate young trial lawyers on trial procedure and trial techniques,...
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Becoming a Trial Lawyer review by Howard Nations
Becoming a Trial Lawyer review by Howard Nations
Review of "Becoming a Trial Lawyer" by Howard Nations in AAJ's Trial Magazine: Trial attorney Rick Friedman’s latest book, On Becoming a Trial Lawyer, offers useful advice to those who...
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Rick Friedman's Winning Trial StrategiesRick Friedman's Winning Trial Strategies
You've heard about his string of impressive jury verdicts. You've read Rules of the Road and Polarizing the Case. The nation's leading lawyers discuss Rick Friedman's trial methods in CLEs...
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Rick Friedman Obtains $5.86 Million VerdictRick Friedman Obtains $5.86 Million Verdict
PEMCO insured the defendant's vehicle with a policy limit of $1.25 million. The plaintiff's losses were significantly greater than this amount. However, the plaintiff did not want to go after...
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On Becoming a Trial Lawyer, an Introspective Journey of Self-Discovery
On Becoming a Trial Lawyer, an Introspective Journey of Self-Discovery
Rick Friedman has written what is arguably his most compelling book yet, Becoming a Trial Lawyer. Friedman examines reasons for becoming a trial lawyer, considers what psychologically is needed to succeed, and...
