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Everyone is my teacher, including Justice Scalia on advocacy.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

Photo from website of U.S. District Court (W.D. Mi.). The Dalai Lama wisely said that "everyone is my teacher, starting with my enemy."  As much as I often have sharp differences with Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's judging -- see here and here, offset here and here -- he apparently has much that is beneficial to teach with co-author Bryan Garner's Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges. That is my initial impression with this ABA Journal article on the book. (Thanks to Scott Greenfield for bringing this ABA Journal link to my attention.) Seeing that Justice Scalia is not known to go easy on lawyers -- no matter the plushness of their law firm's carpets nor whether they are the federal solicitor general or his deputy -- one of the book excerpts that interests me the most is about handling difficult judges:  "LEARN HOW TO HANDLE A DIFFICULT JUDGE...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on April 29, 2008 (boomark / email).