Stewart Edelstein

Broschiertes Buch

How to Succeed as a Trial Lawyer, Third Edition

Beschreibung

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 

Autor

Stewart Edelstein taught clinical courses at Yale Law School for twenty years, during his forty-year career as a commercial trial lawyer. He has frequently presented seminars for trial lawyers, and is the author and presenter of more than eighty articles, podcasts, and webinars for trial lawyers, as well as a book, now in its third edition, How to Succeed as a Trial Lawyer (ABA 2024). He has been on the Neutral Panel of the American Arbitration Association and has served as a Settlement Special Master in federal court and Counsel to the Federal Grievance Committee in Connecticut. He is a graduate of Oberlin College and Cornell Law School, where he was on the moot court team. At Stanford Law School, he completed the Advanced Course in Trial Advocacy, and, at Harvard Law School, he completed the Teacher Training Program, both under the auspices of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. He was admitted to the bars of the State of Connecticut, the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: American Bar Association
• Seitenzahl: 578
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 826g
• ISBN-13: 9781639055364
• ISBN-10: 1639055363
• Artikelnr.: 71924178