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Trials and the art of bloodless war.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

  Is criminal defense work about proverbial war and sometimes bloodletting? Hell, yes, whether one wants it that way or not. As I have said before, t'ai chi principles are important to criminal defense, for focusing on harmonizing an imbalanced situation without applying more than a few ounces of force and without seeking to inflict heavy proverbial casualties as a goal, but not shying away from inflicting such casualties if necessary and within the bounds of law and legal ethics.  Lessons from the following heavily inform my trial battle approach: t'ai chi; Taoism (which heavily influences t'ai chi); Sun Tzu's Art of War (t'ai chi masterpiece Cheng Tzu's Thirteen Treatises is intentionally entitled similarly to the alternative title of Sun Tzu's Art of War, which is Sun Tzu's Thirteen Treatises); the Trial Lawyers College (the TLC's primary founder Gerry Spence references Sun Tzu); and Buddhist teachings on no coming-no going/no birth-no death/no increase-no decrease (t'ai chi master Benjamin Pang Jeng Lo speaks of "not chasing [the opponent's] attributes, or competing, or catching up, or exceeding him")...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on February 08, 2009 (boomark / email).