Poker players boast skills that every lawyer can envy. This highly entertaining work might best be summed up as better lawyering through poker. Steven Lubet shows exactly how the tactics of the poker table can be adapted to litigation, negotiation, and virtually every aspect of law practice. In a series of engaging and informative lessons, Lubet describes concepts like betting for value, and slow playing, and explains how they can be used by lawyers to wintheir cases. The best card players, like the best lawyers, have a knack for getting their adversaries to react exactly as they want, and that talent separates the winners from the losers.…mehr
Poker players boast skills that every lawyer can envy. This highly entertaining work might best be summed up as better lawyering through poker. Steven Lubet shows exactly how the tactics of the poker table can be adapted to litigation, negotiation, and virtually every aspect of law practice. In a series of engaging and informative lessons, Lubet describes concepts like betting for value, and slow playing, and explains how they can be used by lawyers to wintheir cases. The best card players, like the best lawyers, have a knack for getting their adversaries to react exactly as they want, and that talent separates the winners from the losers.
Steven Lubet is Professor of Law at Northwestern University and a nationally recognized expert on trials and trial strategy. He writes an award-winning column for American Lawyer Magazine. His humorous commentaries have been heard on National Public Radio's Morning Edition and his op-eds have run in Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, and many other newspapers.
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Introduction Diamonds Lesson 1: Saving Bets Lesson 2: Expected Value Lesson 3: Don't Gamble Lesson 4: Depend on the Rabbit's Foot if You Will, But Remember: It Didn't Work for the Rabbit Lesson 5: Opening Hands Lesson 6: Drawing Hands Lesson 7: Chasing is for Dogs Lesson 8: Yardley's Law (and Darrow's Exception) Lesson 9: Losing It Lesson 10: Desperate Times Lesson 11: Volatility Lesson 12: Sunk Costs Lesson 13: Stakes Matter Clubs Lesson 1: Fundamentalism Lesson 2: Know Why You are Betting Lesson 3: Slow Playing Lesson 4: Bluffing Lesson 5: Reverse Bluffing Lesson 6: Semi-Bluffing Lesson 7: Overplaying Lesson 8: Calling Bluffs Lesson 9: Loose Wiring Lesson 10: Folding Winners Lesson 11: Establishing Patterns Lesson 12: Implication and Story Telling Lesson 13: Patience Spades Lesson 1: Knowledge is Power Lesson 2: Taking Their Measure Lesson 3: Tells Lesson 4: Get What You Need Lesson 5: True Lies Lesson 6: That's Acting Lesson 7: Calling Bias Lesson 8: Paying Attention Lesson 9: Reading Value Lesson 10: Total Recall Lesson 11: The Unexpected Lesson 12: Local Rules Lesson 13: Showing Your Hand Hearts Lesson 1: Lying Lesson 2: Cheating Lesson 3: Scamming Lesson 4: Banking the Proceeds Lesson 5: The Right Stuff Lesson 6: Moral Hazards Lesson 7: Self Control Lesson 8: Beginner's Luck Lesson 9: You Gotta Have Heart Lesson 10: Cards Speak Lesson 11: Cross Examination Does Not Mean Angry Examination Lesson 12: Beautiful Loser Lesson 13: Poker Ain't Life Ranks of Hands Glossary Notes and Sources Bibliography
