Description

Moe Levine was a pioneer in educating fellow trial lawyers on trial strategy, issue framing, and the mastery of forensic medicine. He has provided inspiration to many of the nation’s leading lawyers. His ideas are timeless, and apply as much today as when he used them over thirty years ago. This collection of his publicly available lectures and trial transcripts is the most complete book ever produced on the winning strategies of Moe Levine. Since his death in 1974, the nation’s leading trial lawyers and jury consultants have passed down Moe Levine’s teachings through their own trial work. Now, for the first time in over thirty years, you can learn these winning trial strategies directly from Moe Levine.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Don C. Keenan
Foreword by Russell Corker

Part I: Lectures on Advocacy

1. Percepts of Persuasion
2. Summations
3. Thesis of the Whole Man
4. Damages for the Destruction of Dignity and Pride
5. Aggravation of Prior Condition
6. Economic Replacement
7. Impairment of Intellect
8. An Evaluation of Pain
9. The Psychology of the Closing Argument

Part II: Lectures on Anatomy and Physiology After Trauma

10. Skeletal Structure
11. Brain Injuries
12. The Five Primary Senses
13. The Skin, Muscles, and Nerves
14. Psychological Injuries
15. The Heart and Internal Organs
16. Summation Using the ‘Whole Man’ Concept

Part III: Lectures on Medical Malpractice

17. Investigations and Trial of a Medical Malpractice Case

Part IV: Closing Arguments

18. Death of an Alcoholic
19. Damages for Burns
20. Psychological Consequences
21. Previous Illness, Difficult Liability
22. Unemployment, Not Disability
23. Damages for Second Injury Resulting from First
24. Jenny O’Neal
25. Double Amputation Case
Afterword by Louise E. Schwartz

Reviews

1. 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

2. 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

3. A trial lawyer who has not read Moe Levine is like a poet who has not read Shakespeare. 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.