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- Title: Winning Litigation
- Author : David Dantes
- Release Date : January 13, 2014
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 364 KB
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1. Most of whatâs in here isnât taught in law schools. Even if your school has a competent, experienced litigator teaching trial advocacy, you still wonât learn most of this information there; and
2. Working in the legal profession will not, without some outside help (like this book), teach it to you. At least not in the first 30 or 40 years or so.
How do I know that?
Iâve been working in the legal profession for over 30 years, as a law student, first in a legal aid clinic, then in the L. A. County Public Defenderâs Office, for four years as a lawyer in an eviction mill, and free-lancing, first as a law clerk, then in private practice as an attorney, in both civil and criminal cases.
And I have met, worked for, worked with, partied with, opposed, negotiated with, negotiated against, represented, and just watched, in hundreds of offices, Courtrooms, and conference rooms, hundreds of lawyers, from sole practitioners to members of quite a number of the largest law firms in California, the United States, and beyond. And everything in between. Iâve worked for some very famous criminal attorneys, and a number of civil attorneys that I consider to be just as good as those were.
And guess what? MOST attorneys, until theyâve been practicing for quite a few years, donât know most of whatâs in this book. They ought to; they need to, right out of the gate. But they donât.
We all need all of this, from Day One.
Let me put it in personal terms.
Some of the principles (or ârulesâ) in this book I learned over 30 years ago, while I was still in law school and had just started clerking for real lawyers.
On the other hand several of the principles in here I only figured out in the last few months.
And guess what else. Iâll bet a lot of money (and Iâm not a gambling man) that there are quite a number of other principles out there that I have yet to learn.
Whatâs in this book will, if you actively practice it, move you into the top ranks among practicing litigators, short-cutting your learning curve by at least 20 years.
This book will not:
- Teach you a lot of actual in-trial, Courtroom techniques. Those fall into a variety of areas, many of which have already been well covered by other experts in other books. See the Bibliography at the back;
- Teach you how to run your office as a business. There are several good books out there that already do that;
- Teach you how to hire and fire staff.
What this book will do is teach you invaluable tricks, tools and techniques and, most importantly, attitudes and perspectives, that Iâve learned out there (and that all good lawyers know), that will enable you to out-think and out-plan your opponent
- partly because youâll understand him or her better than he does himself;
- partly because youâll have an introduction to the pitfalls of human nature that most lawyers have to spend years learning through trial and error;
- but mostly because youâll be looking at a bigger picture than he even knows there is.
The One Assumption of this Book
There is one assumption Iâm making in what I say here:
that the hundreds of lawyers Iâve worked with or against, or just observed, are not atypical of all the thousands of others out there.
That is to say, that my experience is NOT an aberration.
After youâve been practicing for about two or three years, look around you, re-review this book, and youâll agree.