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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…
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…
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