In the Trenches by Norm Pattis

In the Trenches

With America's Fiercest Trial Lawyer

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Plenty of lawyers write about the law, but few who write try cases. Judge for yourself whether I talk the talk and walk the walk in this collection of occasional essays about life in the law's trenches.
- Norm Pattis

Chapter List

Preface: What Feels Right?
Prologomena: A Victor’s Tears
Eat Your Gun
 
A Few Good Books
 
Who Believes in the Presumption of Innocence?
 
Plea Bargains and Dark Justice
 
Eat Your Gun, Part Two
 
Snowden is My Kind of Hero
 
Roots, Or, Chaos Becomes Me
 
An Independent Judiciary
 
Bullies with Briefcases
 
Justice Conceived Isn’t Theory Relieved
 
A Too-Powerful Sovereign
 
Lying Lawmen
 
Color Blind? Or Willfully Blind?
 
Apocalyptic Francis
 
Civil Justice?
 
Family Law?
 
A Bombing in Boston
 
Jury Nullification and a Stupid War on Drugs
 
All is Vanity
 
High Profile Mayhem
 
Eat Your Gun, Part Three
 
The Simply Irrational
 
International Law?
 
Quotidian Conflicts
 
Brilliant ..... Audacious
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