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ATLA and the party of Lincoln.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-DEC-03
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: ATLA and the party of Lincoln.(Association of Trial Lawyers of America)(President's Page)

Article Excerpt
The right to a civil jury trial, embedded in the Seventh Amendment, had a strong advocate in young Abraham Lincoln. Like many ATLA members today, he was a small-firm lawyer who represented ordinary people and developed his speaking skills before juries.

Lincoln biographer Benjamin Thomas wrote,

On the crucial point he was relentless, trying to put it clearly before the jury, bringing the argument around to it again and again until the dullest mind on the jury understood it. For lucidity of statement and ability to clarify by means of homely analogies, he had no equal. He was almost unbeatable when simple life and justice were involved.

When Lincoln litigated, he was sometimes attacked in the press. In...

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