Nothing but the Truth Why Trial Lawyers Don't, Can't, and Shouldn't Have to Tell the Whole Truth
Lubet's Nothing But The Truth presents a novel and engaging analysis of the role of storytelling in trial advocacy. The best lawyers are storytellers, he explains, who take the raw and disjointed observations of witnesses and transform them into coherent and persuasive narratives. Critics of th...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York
NYU Press
2001, 2001
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| Series: | Critical America Series
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Lubet's Nothing But The Truth presents a novel and engaging analysis of the role of storytelling in trial advocacy. The best lawyers are storytellers, he explains, who take the raw and disjointed observations of witnesses and transform them into coherent and persuasive narratives. Critics of the adversary system, of course, have little patience for storytelling, regarding trial lawyers as flimflam artists who use sly means and cunning rhetoric to befuddle witnesses and bamboozle juries. Why not simply allow the witnesses to speak their minds, without the distorting influence of lawyers' strata |
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| Physical Description: | 231 pages |
| ISBN: | 9780814751732 0814751733 9780814751749 9780814765029 0814765025 0814751741 |