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Summary: speak now and take your piece
Review: Cardinal Rules Of Advocacy is a wonderful book for teaching people how to form and craft an argument. As a college instructor, I find the book to be an extremely valuable text for working with students who have to learn how to stand before an audience and present a cogent,thoughtful, concise and entertaining position on complex issues. All too often, my students fumble and stumble their way through public speaking and debate. But the Cardinal Rules of Advocacy offers insightful methods and techniques for people who want to learn the important skill of making a persuasive argument. As an added bonus, the book features Lavine's incisive prose and sly wit.
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Summary: Cardinal Rules of Advocacy
Review: Cardinal Rules of Advocacy is exceptional as a practical and thought-provoking guide to understanding and mastering the fundamental principles of persuasion, especially for the trial lawyer. Judge Lavine's lucid prose, erudition, wit, and years of experience as a successful trial lawyer and respected jurist all contribute to a book of uncommon insight and utility. Probing deeper than other books about trial advocacy that merely focus on the rules of evidence, Judge Lavine's book discusses in depth such topics as identifying the audience, establishing and enhancing integrity and credibility, the necessity of thinking creatively, the importance of total preparation, and the need to frame the issues, focus on key themes, and use language precisely and persuasively. The text is greatly enhanced by well-chosen illustrations from law and literature and, at the end of each chapter, musings and exercises that provide the basis for stimulating discussion about each topic covered in the book. As an experienced trial lawyer and law school teacher of trial advocacy, I have found Judge Lavine's book to be an excellent resource.
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Summary: Cardinal Rules of Advocacy
Review: Cardinal Rules of Advocacy is exceptional as a practical and thought-provoking guide to understanding and mastering the fundamental principles of persuasion, especially for the trial lawyer. Judge Lavine's lucid prose, erudition, wit, and years of experience as a successful trial lawyer and respected jurist all contribute to a book of uncommon insight and utility. Probing deeper than other books about trial advocacy that merely focus on the rules of evidence, Judge Lavine's book discusses in depth such topics as identifying the audience, establishing and enhancing integrity and credibility, the necessity of thinking creatively, the importance of total preparation, and the need to frame the issues, focus on key themes, and use language precisely and persuasively. The text is greatly enhanced by well-chosen illustrations from law and literature and, at the end of each chapter, musings and exercises that provide the basis for stimulating discussion about each topic covered in the book. As an experienced trial lawyer and law school teacher of trial advocacy, I have found Judge Lavine's book to be an excellent resource.
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Summary: Cardinal Rules of Advocacy by Douglas S. Lavine
Review: On learning the skill of persuasion, Hon. John W. Davis once quipped that if you want advice on how to catch a fish, learn from a fish, rather than a fisherman. So what better book to read on persuasion than this one written by a judge, rather than a lawyer? More than just teach how to be persuasive, Judge Lavine reminds us the practice of law is an art. My favorite passage - building on the story of three bricklayers, the first who says he is laying down bricks, the second who says he is building a nave, and the third who understands he is building a cathedral - is this: "When you argue, even in a small case, don't be content to lay a brick or build a nave; try to bring to your work the consciousness of someone who is creating a cathedral." A wonderful book. If you ever tried to read Aristotle's classic "The Art of Rhetoric," and surrendered, take heart. "The Cardinal Rules of Advocacy" is a classic for our time.
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Summary: Time tested and consistent with current persuasion theory
Review: Persuasive argumentation is a critical point of trial advocacy. Even the best legal argument with the most solid logic is useless if it can't be used to persuade the judge or jury to your position. "Cardinal Rules of Advocacy" presents the fundamental principles of persuasion in a clear and easy to understand format. Some of the most important rules are making sure that you understand your audience, tailoring your argument toward that specific audience, establish and enhance credibility, thinking creatively before the trial, total preparation, reframing the issues, and answering and posing questions. Chapter three is an excellent analysis of creative thinking for presenting your case, fallacies, and appeals to emotions. This provides a good solid basis for an argument which when coupled with the credibility and reframing the position produces a persuasive communication. This is a highly recommended read for anyone who needs to persuade others.
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Summary: Time tested and consistent with current persuasion theory
Review: Persuasive argumentation is a critical point of trial advocacy. Even the best legal argument with the most solid logic is useless if it can't be used to persuade the judge or jury to your position. "Cardinal Rules of Advocacy" presents the fundamental principles of persuasion in a clear and easy to understand format. Some of the most important rules are making sure that you understand your audience, tailoring your argument toward that specific audience, establish and enhance credibility, thinking creatively before the trial, total preparation, reframing the issues, and answering and posing questions. Chapter three is an excellent analysis of creative thinking for presenting your case, fallacies, and appeals to emotions. This provides a good solid basis for an argument which when coupled with the credibility and reframing the position produces a persuasive communication. This is a highly recommended read for anyone who needs to persuade others.
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Summary: A great gift!
Review: This book is a great read. You can pick up any chapter and read it independently because of Judge Lavine's writing style. It would make a great gift for a new lawyer or in fact any lawyer. I wish some of the lawyers who appear before me would receive it as a gift and READ IT! Judge McLachlan - Superior Court Judge, State of Connecticut
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Summary: Friendly Persuasion: The Art of Effective Communications
Review: While this book's title suggests means of effective advocacy, it's also a primer on persuasive communications, useful not just for legal advocates, but for anyone who wishes to be more effectively heard. In some ways, it's like Fisher and Ury's, Getting to Yes, on negotiations. Like Fisher and Ury's work, it has broad applicability even though it has a specific focus. And, like Getting to Yes, Cardinal Rules articulates notions we intuitively sense but clarifies them by setting them out in a straight forward lucid manner. I particularly liked Lavine's use of examples to make his points. From Abraham to Reagan, his use of illustrations of persuasive speech gives texture to his "rules". I also liked the exercises at the end of each chapter. Combined with the richness of the text, this feature makes the book highly useful as a classroom text for any course dealing with effective communications. While framed as questions, most of the exercises provide a springboard for classroom discussion of the topics covered in chapter text. Though broader in scope than legal persuasion, it's focus on legal advocacy is key for lawyers and law students who aspire to winning ways in the courtroom.
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