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Summer Reading

By Melody Evans and Kirk Redmond

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After you are done with the summer blockbusters, the murder mysteries, the spy novels (my favorite) and, yes, for some of you, Danielle Steele, you need something to make you feel smart again. I have the perfect book: Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges. All right, don't stop reading now. This book is the collaborative effort of Bryan A Garner, who offers wonderful and effective legal writing seminars, and Justice Antonin Scalia. Whatever view you have of Scalia, he is an intelligent and entertaining writer.This is a good book. Easy to read, moves quickly, and, of course, well written. Very simply, this book will make you a better lawyer.And, while I don't agree with everything in the book (the authors also disagree with one another on several points), if nothing else, it is entertaining to read Scalia -- the Judge of Cheap Shots when he disagrees with his colleagues -- advise us lawyers to be collegial, even tempered, good humored, and avoid taking cheap shots...continue to full post

Full post as published by Kansas Federal Defender on June 09, 2008 (boomark / email).