Shark Tales: True (and Amazing) Stories from America's Lawyers
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.45 (966 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0684857286 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Things Lawyers Talk About in Bars" according to G. Ware Cornell Jr.. Lawyers don't have the reputation of being particularly funny. This comes from the requirement that lawyers maintain a stern or inscrutable demeanor when a witness splits his pants wide open leaving the witness stand. However in lawyer bars across the land, alone with our own kind( don't ask ), lawyers tell "war stories," collected here by Ron Lie. "A few laughs; a few chuckles; some filler." according to Ralph Adam Fine. This is a quick read, and some of the funny stories will make you chuckle -- if not laugh -- out loud. But, sadly, there is a lot of unfunny filler--tales of young lawyers whose representation of their trusting clients was poor indeed. Moreover, some of the material--the amusing excerpts from court and deposition transcripts--come from a book publ. A Bathroom readNot bad though A Customer This book is one that has many entertaining stories, as well as some that are just plain insignificant and stupid. The author uses every story he could get his hands on that has some element of humor or interesting facts and puts it in the book. However, while many of the stories are outrageously funny, a majority are just filler.One aspect that m
Funny, revealing, sad, poignant, and even exciting, Shark Tales is a hugely entertaining book for legal junkies -- authentic slices of life that reveal what really makes the law everyone's obsession.. Here is the tale of a case settled not by a fingerprint left behind at the scene of the crime, but an entire finger. Here is a lawyer agreeing to defend a client accused of passing bad checksa client who promptly bounced the retainer check. Lawyers, and, more to the point, lawyer stories, have been sliced, diced, and presented for consumption for centuries. He asked them to describe the worst judges and best witnesses they'd ever encountered. Today, stories about life on the front lines of the nation's courtrooms fuel everything from the novels of John Grisham and Scott Turow to television shows like The Practice, Ally McBeal, and L.A. He asked for stories of wild divorces and tragic losses. He asked them to supply humor, of course, but also to describe the day on which they were proudest to be lawyers, and the day when they were most ashamed. He reviewed actual court transcripts, and found material like the following: QUESTION: Doctor, how many autopsies have you performed on dead people? ANSWER: All my autopsies have been on dead people. Law. Now in Shark Tales comes a remarkable collection of witty, eccentric, and astounding war stories -- guaranteed to be mostly true -- supplied by hundreds of attorneys and displaying the nitty-gritty
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Publishers Weekly In the equivalent of a pleasant bar-stool visit with some good legal yarn spinners, lawyer-novelist Liebman (Grand Jury) collects dozens of amusing or surprising examples of human behavior from a network of lawyer friends and contacts, adding a few of his own. There's the bitter divorce proceeding that ends with the husband stripping to the buff on a conference room table to confront his wife. . Liebman also includes some gems from Disorder in the