 | Price Comparisons: Used Only | | Sorry, the textbook you were looking for is not available as Used Only, at any of the stores we searched. | Price Comparisons: Rental | | Sorry, the textbook you were looking for is not available as Rental, at any of the stores we searched. | Summaries and Customer Reviews are supplied by Amazon.com | Amazon is honored to offer a luxuriously packaged, numbered, premium bonded leather, limited edition of Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges. Limited to 2010 numbered copies, this Collector's Edition is bound in high quality bonded leather with accompanying hardbound slipcase. In their professional lives courtroom lawyers must do these two things well: speak persuasively and write persuasively. In this noteworthy book, two of the most noted legal writers of our day Justice Antonin Scalia and Bryan A. Garner systematically present every important idea about judicial persuasion in a fresh, entertaining way. Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges is a guide for novice and experienced litigators alike. It covers the essentials of sound legal reasoning, including how to develop the syllogism that underlies any argument. From there the authors explain the art of brief-writing, especially what to include and what to omit, so that you can induce the judge to focus closely on your arguments. Finally, they show what it takes to succeed in oral argument. The opinions of Justice Scalia are legendary for their sharp insights, biting wit, and memorable phrasing. The writings of Bryan A. Garner, editor in chief of Black s Law Dictionary, are respected inside and outside legal circles for their practical guidance on the art of writing and advocacy. Together the Scalia-Garner team has produced a fresh, innovative approach to a timeless topic. |
Average Customer Rating:   Every Attorney should purchase this book! Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges is a amazing book that I the pleasure to read.
I will recommend this book. It is a very complete book that actually gives many example to understand different strategy.
Every Attorney should purchase this book!
Raphael S. Barchichat Concise but practice based discourse on persuasion "Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges" is a concise but practice based discourse on persuasion and is highly recommended.
The 245 page book is a result of brilliant collaboration between Antonin Scalia, an Associate Judge of Supreme Court of United States and Bryan A. Garner, a well known legal lexicographer and Editor in chief of Black's Law Dictionary. The book is for lawyers. But I am software engineer: so what am I doing with this book? From the jacket to sub title and the back cover you will assume that this book is intended only for lawyers. Actually, the authors focus only upon lawyers and describe in detail various aspects of persuading a judge to lead or enable the judge to come to a decision favorable to their clients. All the illustrative examples and side bar are taken from the realm of legal domain. But what makes this book an extraordinary one is how this sharp focus on a particular domain becomes relevant to any situation where persuasion is needed to arrive at an actionable decision. The authors focus more upon analytical and behavioral aspects of art of persuasion rather than emotional techniques many propound.
The book has 4 main parts: General principles of argumentation, Legal reasoning, Briefing, and Oral arguments. First two parts are applicable to anyone and can be read without much legal background. Briefing and Oral arguments are the longest sections in the book and some part of them may need some amount of legal literacy to understand well. I do not know why "Source for Inset quotations" section was needed, but the Recommended Sources are well documented and is very helpful to continue learn more about the subject. The book looks like suddenly stopped without a summary chapter or a conclusion chapter. May be, authors were following their own advise on not to repeat themselves.
Exceptional, very useful! I am not an attorney, but I do make many presentations as part of my job and I found this book extremely helpful. Making Your Case I've read most Bryan Garner books--always great. Making Your Case gets a superb rating. Perfect writing style compliments excellent argument advancement style. It's a 'style' book. Great resource for a 1L I picked this book up because it was highly recommended by typographyforlawyers.com, and I have found it to be very helpful for my legal writing class. Of course, I haven't gotten my grades back yet, so I could be filled with a false sense of hope.
It is very easy to read and the authors are (dare I say it?) funny at times. Being a student with little money, I'd like to see a paperback version, but that is the only problem I have with it.
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