The How-To-Win Trial Manual

The How-To-Win Trial Manual - 4th Edition

Ralph Adam Fine

Price: $85.00 450 pages. 1 Hardcover Volume. Appendices. Index. Published July 2008.
ISBN-13: 978-1-933833-16-3 / ISBN-10: 1933833165

About the Book:
Ralph Adam Fine pulls no punches. In the newly revised fourth edition of his highly acclaimed The How-To-Win Trial Manual, he shows why the traditional ways to try a case in court are suicidal, and he gives extensive examples of such suicidal advocacy by famous, high-profile, well-paid trial lawyers:

Daniel M. Petrocelli in his representation of Jeffrey Skilling in the Enron trial
George McCall Secrest, Jr., in his representation of Kenneth Lay in the Enron trial
Robert G. Morvillo, in his representation of Martha Stewart
Robert G. Abrams and Ronald S. Katz, in their representation of opposing sides in a federal-court anti-trust case involving Caterpillar, Inc.
Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr., in his representation of O.J. Simpson (even though Cochran won—largely, in Ralph Adam Fine’s opinion, because of the incompetence of the prosecutors, which The How-To-Win Trial Manual also shows).

In each of his examples, Ralph Adam Fine shows how the lawyers should have done it, and this will help you hone your winning skills. Ralph Adam Fine also demonstrates why many of Irving Younger’s famous Ten Commandments of Cross-Examination are not only also wrong, but why following them significantly reduces your chance of winning.

Ralph Adam Fine’s The How-To-Win Trial Manual shows you how to win by using your most powerful tool: The jury’s belief that you, the lawyer, knows the “truth” of the case. He also shows you how to ask questions on both direct-examination and cross-examination in such a way so the jury will know the answers before the witnesses (whether lay or expert) respond. Simply put, if you phrase your questions so that the jury answers them the way you want before your witnesses answer and irrespective of what your adversary’s witnesses may say on cross-examination, you will win!

Ralph Adam Fine’s The How-To-Win Trial Manual shows you how to do all of this and more. You and your clients deserve no less.

Win More Cases and Help More Clients!

Praise for "The How-To-Win Trial Manual"

"A succinct, masterful approach to trying cases."
- Gregory P. Joseph, Partner, Gregory P. Joseph Law Offices LLC, New York,
and Former Chair of the Litigation Section of the American Bar Association (ABA).
"Judge Ralph Adam Fine’s The How-To-Win Trial Manual is filled with fresh ideas. By giving
lawyers a new point of view, Judge Fine’s book will make them better advocates."
- Professor James W. McElhaney, Joseph C. Hostetler Professor of Trial Practice and
Advocacy at Case Western Reserve Law School, Columnist for Litigation, the journal of the
ABA Section of Litigation, and the ABA Journal.
“I have read many trial books in my 25 years of trial practice. Judge Fine’s Manual contains
the most practical and reliable approach to a winning trial strategy I have seen.”
- Timothy H. Herman, Senior Partner, Herman, Howrey & Breen, Austin TX, Past Chairman,
Public Law Section, State Bar of Texas; Former Vice Chairman, American Bar Association,
Litigation Section of Natural Resources and Environmental Law
"I just received a copy of The How to Win Trial Manual, by Judge Ralph Fine. This is not a good book but it is an absolutely fabulous book. It is filled with confirmation of many of my own thoughts and also filled with excellent new insights. I want my litigation students to each have a copy."
- Bernard L. Segal, Professor of Law and Director of the Litigation Program, Golden Gate University School of Law; Professor Segal is a distinguished trial lawyer who enjoys national renown as a master teacher in trial advocacy programs for lawyers and has taught at National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA) programs. He served as counsel for Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald in the famous Green Beret murder case that was the subject of the book and movie Fatal Vision and is the author of The Defense Manual for Consensual Crimes and co-author of The National Defense Manual in Criminal Cases.
"I restudy your book before every trial so that I can get the full benefit thereof. It also helps me
spot the obvious mistakes which the other side makes, and have continued my practice of giving
copies of your book to new associates and sending copies of your book to in house counsel."
- Willem G. Schuurman, Senior Partner, Intellectual Property/Technical Litigation Section,
Vinson & Elkins, Austin, TX.
"I've told my associates that its the best trial book I've seen in my 48 plus years of trial
practice."
- Tom Riley, one of the country's pre-eminent trial lawyers, of the Tom Riley Law Firm in
Cedar Rapids and Iowa City, IA
"This is a remarkable book that will help any lawyer become a better litigator. Lawyers have a tendency to over-complicate things and lose juries in forests of detail. Judge Fine's approach is a welcome reminder that litigation need not (and should not) be so complex. It further re-focuses lawyers on what we are supposed to be doing -- arguing our client's case -- and proceeds to show how do so effectively, step by step. I only wish someone had given me this book 15 years ago."

David Maxfield, Partner, Trotter & Maxfield, Columbia, SC.; Chair of the South Carolina Bar's Consumer Law Section
"The best little book that I've ever seen . . . so practical . . . I carry that book with me
every place."
- James P. Linn, Linn & Neville, Oklahoma City, OK.
"I have just bought my third copy of your trial manual. I gave the other two to friends who
needed help. I am now re-reading it for the tenth time. It may be the most useful law book I
have ever had. It also just happens that I have a sticky appeal in which I am the respondent.
Your appeal book provides the clearest guide to appellate writing I have ever seen."
- Paul Fred Cohen, Esq. Los Angeles, CA

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