Strategies for Winning in Court

Author: Edward T. Wright [USA]
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Never has a book so clearly explained the winning strategies of outstanding trial lawyers. This book focuses on the many decisions a trial lawyer must make in court and discusses the evidence techniques and new ideas that can give them an edge over opposing counsel. The author summarizes his 44 years of personal experience in litigation, attending seminars, and reading and writing trial advocacy works in this book. More importantly, he has also compiled the experience and insights of the most outstanding trial lawyers in the United States. The existence and development of the legal profession are closely tied to the realization of justice. Indeed, justice will ultimately be served, but its realization requires strategy. As the ancients said, "To win a battle, one must plan within the tent but win miles away." In a sense, using litigation strategy reasonably and effectively to achieve justice in the fastest way, with the least cost, and within the broadest limits is precisely the value of the legal profession. And how to use litigation strategy reasonably and effectively is a topic that lawyers should seriously explore.
The Chinese legal profession has made some remarkable achievements after more than 20 years of development and has produced a number of outstanding lawyers. Relying on their profound legal knowledge and exquisite litigation skills, they engage in fierce battles before the court and achieve victory in the courtroom, accumulating rich experience. However, most of this experience is scattered and one-sided, failing to form a systematic strategy or to be widely disseminated among lawyers in a systematic way—this cannot be said to be a pity. Fortunately, "a stone from a distant mountain can polish jade," and in Winning Strategies in Court, Edward T. Wright systematically summarizes the experience of himself and many other outstanding lawyers in the United States, outlining a complete and practical set of litigation strategies. Although these strategies were developed within the context of the U.S. litigation system, just as Sun Tzu's Art of War from the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods remains highly relevant in modern warfare, strategies have always been "different in form but the same in essence" across different eras, countries, and systems, and litigation strategies are no exception. In fact, as translators, we have already benefited greatly from the translation process, and we certainly hope and believe that readers will also gain even more from this book.