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 Every Attorney should purchase this book! Sep 13, 2009
Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges is a amazing book that I the pleasure to read.
I will recommend this book. It is a very complete book that actually gives many example to understand different strategy.
Every Attorney should purchase this book!
Raphael S. Barchichat
Concise but practice based discourse on persuasion Apr 16, 2009
"Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges" is a concise but practice based discourse on persuasion and is highly recommended.
The 245 page book is a result of brilliant collaboration between Antonin Scalia, an Associate Judge of Supreme Court of United States and Bryan A. Garner, a well known legal lexicographer and Editor in chief of Black's Law Dictionary. The book is for lawyers. But I am software engineer: so what am I doing with this book? From the jacket to sub title and the back cover you will assume that this book is intended only for lawyers. Actually, the authors focus only upon lawyers and describe in detail various aspects of persuading a judge to lead or enable the judge to come to a decision favorable to their clients. All the illustrative examples and side bar are taken from the realm of legal domain. But what makes this book an extraordinary one is how this sharp focus on a particular domain becomes relevant to any situation where persuasion is needed to arrive at an actionable decision. The authors focus more upon analytical and behavioral aspects of art of persuasion rather than emotional techniques many propound.
The book has 4 main parts: General principles of argumentation, Legal reasoning, Briefing, and Oral arguments. First two parts are applicable to anyone and can be read without much legal background. Briefing and Oral arguments are the longest sections in the book and some part of them may need some amount of legal literacy to understand well. I do not know why "Source for Inset quotations" section was needed, but the Recommended Sources are well documented and is very helpful to continue learn more about the subject. The book looks like suddenly stopped without a summary chapter or a conclusion chapter. May be, authors were following their own advise on not to repeat themselves.
Exceptional, very useful! Apr 09, 2009
I am not an attorney, but I do make many presentations as part of my job and I found this book extremely helpful.
Making Your Case Mar 23, 2009
I've read most Bryan Garner books--always great. Making Your Case gets a superb rating. Perfect writing style compliments excellent argument advancement style. It's a 'style' book.
Great resource for a 1L Mar 11, 2009
I picked this book up because it was highly recommended by typographyforlawyers.com, and I have found it to be very helpful for my legal writing class. Of course, I haven't gotten my grades back yet, so I could be filled with a false sense of hope.
It is very easy to read and the authors are (dare I say it?) funny at times. Being a student with little money, I'd like to see a paperback version, but that is the only problem I have with it.
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