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Trial and Error: the Education of a Courtroom Lawyer.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-AUG-03 		Format: Online - approximately 1017 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Trial and Error: the Education of a Courtroom Lawyer.(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
John C. Tucker Carroll & Graf www.carrollandgraf.com 357pp., $26

All trial lawyers, whether they practice in small towns or large cities, suffer from the image of the attorney who draws out discovery and settles the case after thoroughly litigating it and wringing every possible dollar from the client. John Tucker's history of his law practice from the 1960s through the 1980s sets him apart from this stereotype.

Louis Nizer's My Life in Court was the book through which most lawyers in the 1960s and 1970s explored the world of a litigator. Robert Kennedy's book about corruption within the Teamsters, The Enemy Within, was another, from an investigative perspective. Both provided insight into the meaning of being a trial lawyer. More recently, Evan Thomas's The Man to See: Edward Bennett Williams: Ultimate Insider; Legendary Trial Lawyer provided a candid insight into the career of one of Washington, D.C.'s most famous trial...

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