A CIVIL ACTION, THE BOOK

"A Civil Action" by Jonathan Harr and published in 1995 is the true story of two companies in Woburn, Mass. accused of contaminating municipal water wells. The author was given access to strategy session, decision making sessions. The trial is followed closely in a lively story telling manner and relates some of the 196 volumes of deposition testimony, 57 volumes of pre- and post-trial hearing, 78 days of trial testimony. There is also a film based on the book, but it is not half so engaging.

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY LAW PROFESSORS IN TOKYO

Again the Japanese Bar Association invited two Temple University Law School professors to conduct a jury trial advocacy seminar. Prof. Edward Ohlbaum and JoAnne Epps were in Tokyo in July. Ohlbaum is drafting a proposal to establish a criminal defense lawyer institute in Japan.

TRIAL AD NOTES

Trial Ad Notes from the University of Washington School of Law offers items relating to trial advocacy with a focus on Washington State. This blog includes interesting entries such as 'Communication Tips', 'Dos and Donts of High-tech Trial Presentations'. Well worth looking at.