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Giving The Best Answer The First Time: Berman’s Reinventing Witness Preparation
“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.”– Maya Angelou Advocacy in a divorce law firm and family law firm involves singing a song that resonates with the trier of fact. For witness examinations-direct and cross-advocacy requires us to help our witnesses hit all the right…
Read More A Good Learning Experience: Gold-Bikin And Kolodny’s The Divorce Trial Manual
Vinny Gambini: It’s a procedure. Like rebuilding a carburetor has a procedure. You know, when you rebuild a carburetor, the first thing you do is you take the carburetor off the manifold? Supposing you skip the first step, and while you’re replacing one of the jets, you accidentally drop the jet, it goes down the…
Read More Same Shares, Different Values: The Lawyer’s Business Valuation Handbook
Managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers are the beginning, not the end, of business valuation.-Warren BuffetIt may come as a shock to some clients to learn that there may be two or more definitions of value for the same property at the same time.-Shannon Pratt The second edition of The Lawyer’s Business…
Read More The End Of The Good Life: The Steinfelds’ Family Lawyer’s Guide To Bankruptcy: Forms, Tips, And Strategies
“Divorce, Illness, Unemployment and Overspending. These now are the harbingers of economic doom that spell the end of the ‘good life’ for so many of the economic refugees that seek relief in this ‘Court of Last Resort.'”-Rice v. Rice, 94 B.R. 617, 218 (Bankr. W. D. Mo. 1988), cited in The Family Lawyer’s Guide to Bankruptcy…
Read More A Cook Book Filled With Step-By-Step Recipes: Carrad’s The Complete QDRO Handbook
“The question isn’t at what age I want to retire, it’s at what income.”-George Foreman “After you’re older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.”-Helen Gurley Brown This is a book you should buy for your divorce and family law library. If you’re bewildered by ERISA’s strange vocabulary, you wonder…
Read More Practical Primers: Dickie And Risius On Business Evaluations
“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”“Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.”– Warren Buffet The ABA Section of Business Law has two resources useful to family practitioners seeking assistance with business valuation issues. The first is Financial Statement Analysis and Business Valuation for the Practical Lawyer by Robert B. Dickie, and…
Read More Recognizing Patterns In Legal Arguments: Bosanac’s Litigation Logic
“Logic is the anatomy of thought.”-John Locke Paul Bosanac’s Litigation Logic is essentially a 486-page, annotated flow chart useful to the divorce and family law attorney. He has developed a three-page “Legal Logic Flow Chart” with a series of questions probing your opponent’s arguments in a divorce and family law trial. Each question is followed by a…
Read More How Do You Know What You Say You Know: Zervopoulos’s Confronting Mental Health Evidence
“If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?”-T.S. Eliot David: You’re gay for saying that.Cal: I’m gay for saying that?David: You know how I know you’re gay?Cal: How? How do you know I’m gay?David: Because you macramed yourself a pair of jean shorts.Cal: You know how I know…
Read More Making The Complicated Simple: Christopher Ritter’s Powerful Deliberations
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.-Charles Mingus You might remember trial lawyer/professor/trial consultant Christopher Ritter. He’s the author of another best-selling ABA book, Creating Winning Trial Strategies and Graphics. That manual for persuasive presentations and exhibits helped attorneys, including divorce and family law attorneys, make complex facts easier…
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