Letters to a young lawyer / Alan Dershowitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dershowitz, Alan M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dershowitz, Alan M.

Lawyers--United States--Biography.

Lawyers.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xviii, 206 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Basic Books, [2001]

Summary:

With wit, humor, and decades of personal experiences from which to draw, Dershowitz dispenses advice on career, law, and life in a book aimed at those just starting out in the legal profession.

Contents:

Part I Life and Career

1 Pick Your Heroes Carefully 3

2 Live the Passion of Your Times 15

3 Have a Good Enemies' List 19

4 Don't Do What You're Best At 21

5 Don't Have Deathbed Regrets 25

6 Don't Follow "Off-the-Rack" Advice 29

7 Don't Limit Your Options by Making a Lot of Money 33

8 Don't Risk What You Don't Have Enough of to Get More of What You Have Plenty Of 37

9 Is There an Absolute Morality? 41

10 Should Good Lawyers Defend Bad People? 47

11 Defending Yourself from Legal McCarthyism 57

12 How to Balance Idealism, Realism and Cynicism 65

13 Your Last Exam 69

14 Self-Doubts 73

15 The Perfect Is the Enemy of the Excellent 77

16 An Honorable Profession? 79

17 Blowing the Whistle 83

18 The Good, the Bad, the Honest and the Dishonest 87

19 Your Client Is Not Your Friend 95

20 Stop Whining, Start Winning 99

Part II Winning and Losing

21 Where Can You Learn Advocacy? 105

22 Winning Before a Jury: The "Aha" Theory 111

23 Winning Before a Judge: Political Justice 119

24 Arguing in the Supreme Court 125

25 Who Is Your Client? 129

26 Losing 133

27 Don't Underestimate Your Opponent 135

28 The Prosecutor's Blind Spot 137

29 The Difference Between a Prosecutor and a Defense Attorney 147

30 Lawyers' Morals

and Other Oxymorons 151

31 Know When to Fight

and When to Give In 161

32 Dealing with Criticism 163

Part III Being a Good Person

33 Can a Good Lawyer Be a Good Person? 169

34 Can You Pass the "Fluoridation" Test? 177

35 Graduating Law Students 181

36 Graduating University Students 187

37 Why Be a Good Person? 193.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0465016316

OCLC:

47755783