The Night Docket
Cases are won on paper before they are won in the room. This is where the paper gets studied: the words, the techniques, and the writers who did it best.
Preserved
No objection, no appeal. The trial lawyer plays two games at once.
Enough
The Okinawans stop at eighty percent. The best caseloads work the same way.
Outgunned
A thousand lawyers. One man. One shared hallway on the thirty-ninth floor.
Sun Tzu
Six thousand words, twenty-five centuries old, still running the courtroom.
Comes Now
The most famous throat-clear in Texas law, edited into a first line that earns its place.
Because
Jurors build stories, and stories run on causes. The one-sentence test of a case theory.
Darrow
Twelve hours on his feet, and nobody left. The defender completes the triad.
The Fog Machine
One defense-letter sentence, edited down to its eleven honest words.
Never
Some words describe. Never legislates.
Lincoln
The best closing argument in American history took two minutes.
Scalia
Scouting report: the most quoted writer the Court ever produced.
Reckless
Negligent is a shrug. Reckless is a decision.