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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…
Read More The Fundamental Tool: The 12 Secrets Of Persuasive Argument
It cannot be denied, indeed, that there have been great lawyers, who were not great, orators; as there have been great orators, who were not great lawyers. But it must be admitted at the same time, that, when both characters are united in the same person, human genius has approached as near perfection, as it…
Read More Arriving At The Simple: Herman’s 101+ Practical Solutions For The Family Lawyer
“The solutions all are simple . . . after you have arrived at them. But they’re simple only when you know already what they are.”-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974) If you’ve missed 15 years of ABA Family Law Section Annual Meetings, it’s okay. We now have a 702…
Read More Income And Asset Discovery: Zuckerman’s Tax Return
“The United States has a system of taxation by confession.” -Hugo Black “Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.” -Oscar Wilde Cashflow, cash basis, capital gain, inventory, income, gross receipts, profit, accounts receivable, alimony, assets, accrual, trend analysis, lifestyle analysis, mark-up analysis, perquisites,…
Read More This Rather Lengthy Tome: Stephen Easton’s Attacking Adverse Experts
The record is redolent with familiar dogmatic assertions by experts equally confident of contradictory contentions.-Justice Felix Frankfurter (Railroad Comm’n v. Rowan & Nichols Oil Co., 310 U.S. 573, 583 (1940)). Stephen Easton is a civil trial attorney, and civil trial attorneys encounter experts who are sloppy, biased, and wrong. Easton takes it personally-as an…
Read More This Is Not A Conversation: Daniel Small’s Preparing Witnesses, 3rd Edition
Col. Jessep: You want answers?Kaffee: I think I’m entitled.Col. Jessep: You want answers?Kaffee: I want the truth!Col. Jessep: You can’t handle the truth!-A Few Good Men (1992) To be clear, Daniel Small’s Preparing Witnesses honors the fundamental principle that a witness always tell the truth. Still, he would have ruined the movie had Col. Jessep taken…
Read More Don’t Screw It Up: Effectively Staffing Your Law Firm
“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.”-Oscar Wilde Note: Jennifer Rose’s book applies to all law firms. We are just focusing on divorce and family law firms here. If you practice as a sole practitioner or in a small firm, including divorce and family law, you have special powers that transcend…
Read More Danger And Opportunity: Pegi Price’s The Special Needs Child And Divorce
When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.-John F. Kennedy Pegi Price faced danger in her own life and traveled with that danger through the courts. Her new book shows the opportunity that flowed from her struggles and her hard work to…
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