Earl Rogers' birthday today - November 18, 1869.
If you are considering being a trialawyer, you need to know:
Books: Adela Rogers St. John, Final Verdict (it is out of print, but it is the single best trialawyer book ever written) Francis L. Wellman, The Art of Cross-Examination Thomas Thompson, Blood and Money John Barth, The Floating Opera Melvin Belli, Modern Trials (just be familiar with the concepts) David Boies, Courting Justice Herman Melville, Billy Budd Movies: Witness for the Prosecution (1957), the Billy Wilder/Charles Laughton version Anatomy of a Murder (1959), the book is good, too Inherit the Wind (1960), the Stanley Kramer/Spencer Tracey version The Lawyer (1970), the Barry Newman movie The Caine Mutiny (1954) 12 Angry Men (1957), the Sidney Lumet/Henry Fonda version Compulsion(1959), the Orson Welles version The Paper Chase (1973), but only about the first 40 minutes or so Judgement at Nuremberg (1961) To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) this might be interesting:
http://www.tmz.com/2009/11/04/lindsay-tells-lawyer-muzzle-my-dad/ |