Unconventional Wisdom: How Two of America’s Top Trial Lawyers Win Cases

This book was written for trial lawyers who handle wrongful injury cases. It’s about how to achieve great results for your clients. Even to achieve the best settlement, you have to be an able trial lawyer because it’s the apprehension of a big verdict that motivates opponents to settle. And trial skills are readily transferable to pre-trial skills, which help make cases better, whether or not they are eventually settled or tried. So excellent trial skills are indispensable. This book is not about theory. It is about actual things that occur in a courtroom, or before or after trial. It is based on a combined 80-plus years of knowledge with what is now the largest plaintiff ’s firm in Pennsylvania and one of the largest in the country. This book teaches what we believe works best in civil litigation and why.

Robert Zausner is a former journalist with the United Press International and The Philadelphia Inquirer.He is the author of Two Boys: Divided by Fortune--United by Tragedy; Bad Brake: Ford Trucks--Deadly When Parked; Danger Above: A Tragic Death, an Epic Courtroom Battle; and Dying to Have a Baby: A True Story.