How to Succeed as a Trial Lawyer, Third Edition

Unlike any other book for trial lawyers, this book covers the gamut - updated practical advice about every aspect of a trial lawyer’s skill set. In a straightforward, approachable style, the author, a veteran trial lawyer and mentor, provides numerous pearls of wisdom, practice checklists, and what effective litigators eventually learn on the job. This portable mentor will fast-track any trial lawyer’s career.

Litigation is a challenging profession. It demands not only intellectual ability but attention to detail, perseverance, creative problem-solving, persuasiveness, focus, integrity, and the ability to press the client’s position with zeal while maintaining sufficient detachment to provide the objective, independent advice the client requires. How to Succeed as a Trial Lawyer, Third Edition is an invaluable guide to each of these requirements and more.

Topics covered:

• effective and ethical use of artificial intelligence
• strategies for in-person and remote depositions, mediations, and arbitrations
• compliance with updated ethical rules
• strategic implementation of the most recent amendments to the Federal Rules of Evidence
• dealing with clients and others in a trial lawyer’s professional life
• principles applicable to all legal writing
• drafting emails, letters, internal memos, pleadings, motions, and briefs
• all aspects of discovery, including e-discovery
• how to try a case, from jury selection through closing argument
• the art of persuasion
• dealing with ethical issues
• dealing with stress
• marketing a law practice