Litigation
Cal. Litig. 2023, Volume 36, Issue 2
Content
- A Litigator's Guide To Vacatur: Overturning An Arbitration Award
- A Trial Lawyer In Full: the Life and Career of James J. Brosnahan
- Are You Savvy About Arbitration?
- California's Gun Purchase Waiting Period: a History of the Future
- Editor's Foreword
- From the Section Chair
- Meet Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett (C.D. Cal.)
- PAST SECTION CHAIRS & EDITORS-IN-CHIEF
- SECTION OFFICERS & EDITORIAL BOARD
- Table of Contents
- The Best Way To Destroy An Enemy Is To Make Him a Friend
- The Need To Update California's International Arbitration Code
- What's Next With the Client Trust Accounting Protection Program?
- Why I Did It the Way I Did It
- You Are Not An American: Citizenship From Dred Scott To the Dreamers
- Five Non-legal Books Every Young Litigator Should Read
FIVE NON-LEGAL BOOKS EVERY YOUNG LITIGATOR SHOULD READ
Writen by Steven B. Katz*
Some 90 years ago, Jerome Frank, former Second Circuit judge and one of the leading lights of Legal Realism, wrote the "tasks of the lawyer do not pivot around those rules and principles" taught in law school. "The work of the lawyer revolves about specific decisions in definite pieces of litigation." (Frank, Why Not A Clinical Lawyer-School? (1933) 81 Univ. Penn. L.Rev. 907, 910.)
In the spirit of Judge Frank, let me suggest five books that will teach young lawyers as much about litigation as any casebook. And unlike any casebook or treatise, the lessons in these books will apply in every single case.
The first is Sun-Tzu (that’s SOON-tzuh, not son-SOO), The Art of War.