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Lawyers' Poker: 52 Lessons that Lawyers Can Learn from Card Players.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-JAN-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Lawyers' Poker: 52 Lessons that Lawyers Can Learn from Card Players.(Book review)

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Lawyers' Poker: 52 Lessons That Lawyers Can Learn from Card Players

Steven Lubet Oxford University Press www. oup-usa.org 275 pp., $28

I started to read Lawyers' Poker skeptical of the claim that attorneys can learn from poker players, but after only a few pages, I was a convert. Steven Lubet, a law professor at Northwestern University, suggests in the introduction that "there is a deep symmetry between litigation and poker," and he proves it overwhelmingly throughout the book.

I have practiced law for more than 30 years and played poker for longer than...

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