Trial Practice

Susan Berk-Seligson's groundbreaking book draws on more than one hundred hours of taped recordings of Spanish/English court proceedings in federal, state, and municipal courts along with extensive psycholinguistic research using translated testimony and...

In recent decades, Oliver Wendell Holmes has been praised as "the only great American legal thinker" and "the most illustrious figure in the history of American law." But in Albert Alschuler's critique of both Justice Holmes and contemporary legal...

People lie in legal proceedings, and in every scenario the common denominator is the same - it's the lawyer who everyone expects to know how to separate truth from lies, fiction from fact. The problem? Most people - including lawyers - are notoriously...