Trial Practice

Berg knows how to win cases. And he knows how to tell a story. Berg puts both skills to dazzling use in an engaging and instructive guide to winning at trial. Here, he covers the key elements of a trial--opening arguments, cross examinations, closing arguments--but he also shares his thoughts on wha... More

With tremendous wit, clarity, and insight, Kadri journeys through 2,500 years of jurisprudence and reveals how age-old superstitions--often religious and mystical, sometimes even sacrificial--continue to infuse what is thought of as a quintessentially rational process.For as long as accuser and accu... More

From Clarence Darrow and the Nuremberg Trials to "The State of California v. Charles Manson", this one-of-a-kind collection brings together the impassioned words that put evil men to death, freed the innocent, and provided justice for the injured.The closing argument is a lawyer's last opportunity t... More

In an extraordinary history of the criminal trial, Sadakat Kadri shows with wit, legal insight and a travel writer's eye for detail, how the irrationality of the past lives on in the legal systems of the present. A bold and brilliant debut from a prize-winning new writer. 'The Trial' spans a vast di... More

For as long as accuser and accused have faced each other in public, criminal trials have been establishing far more than who did what to whom-and in this fascinating book, Sadakat Kadri surveys four thousand years of courtroom drama. A brilliantly engaging writer, Kadri journeys from the silence of ... More