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From the Forward

"Over thirty years ago as a young law student, I was in the front row at a trial lawyer seminar that announced the next speaker, Moe Levine from New York. At the time I had never heard of Moe. However, what I witnessed thereafter was truly a career-changing epiphany. The lights were dim, and onto the raised platform came an elderly man, obviously in poor health, with little vision. Moe stood in the spotlight and began to deliver the closing argument in an injury case. For thirty minutes I sat spellbound, engrossed in the passion of this imaginary case. Real tears fell down my cheeks and those of the people surrounding me. It was an experience I will never forget."
—Don Keenan, child advocate, and member of the Inner Circle of Advocates

Reviews

"Trial Guides again trumps the big guys. In this continuing era of 'tort-reformed' jurors, the hard lesson is that the old ways no longer work, and we need something else. So we invent new things. But no less important is the precious trove of Moe Levine's ways. What he did and taught way back then is dead-on what we need now. How so prescient? He dwelled at the intersection of mind and heart, the place that determines the outcome of every case. And he teaches you how to live there, too."
—David Ball, Ph.D., author of David Ball on Damages

"Only a handful of plaintiff's trial lawyers have managed to claw their way to the mountaintop of full justice over and over again; only to come back down and share the secrets of their success with their colleagues. Moe Levine was one, and it is fitting that Don Keenan, another titan and teacher, should write the introduction for the most complete collection of Moe Levine's teachings ever published. Trial lawyers everywhere can now stand on the shoulders of two giants of the plaintiff's trial bar."
—Dennis Donnelly, immediate past president of the Inner Circle of Advocates

"A trial lawyer who has not read Moe Levine is like a poet who has not read Shakespere. You may get the job done, but you are missing out on joy and inspiration—and are not truly educated. In the past, lawyers have had to search through used book stores and libraries for bits and pieces of the wisdom Moe shared with his contemporaries. Trial Guides has pulled it all together in one book that you will return to again and again."
—Rick Friedman, author of Rules of the Road, Polarizing the Case, and Rick Friedman on Becoming a Trial Lawyer. Member of the Inner Circle of Advocates, the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, and recipient of the 2004 Steven J. Sharp award.