Books

Here, we share books whose insights inform and underpin what we do. Our focus is books you likely have not come across or may not have considered relevant to trial work.

We invite you share titles of books that have changed your trial thinking or recharged your trial skills with us and your colleagues by emailing us or posting on our private Trialcraft Facebook page.

Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason And The Human Brain

by Antonio Damasio A Harvest Book, Harcourt, Inc.

Every year in mid-summer, the mall in Washington, DC is transformed into a huge stage for one of the largest festivals of folk life in the world. In 1986, Sam Schrager created a stage for one of America’s greatest unsung folk arts: trial opening statements and closing arguments. Those performances capped a year-long study Schrager conducted of the oral persuasion…

Visual Language: Global Communication For The 21st Century

by Robert E. Horn PLANE Press

Every year in mid-summer, the mall in Washington, DC is transformed into a huge stage for one of the largest festivals of folk life in the world. In 1986, Sam Schrager created a stage for one of America’s greatest unsung folk arts: trial opening statements and closing arguments. Those performances capped a year-long study Schrager conducted of the oral persuasion…

Sources Of Power: How People Make Decisions

by Gary Klein MIT Press

Every year in mid-summer, the mall in Washington, DC is transformed into a huge stage for one of the largest festivals of folk life in the world. In 1986, Sam Schrager created a stage for one of America’s greatest unsung folk arts: trial opening statements and closing arguments. Those performances capped a year-long study Schrager conducted of the oral persuasion…

The Trial Lawyer’s Art

by Sam Schrager Temple University Press

Every year in mid-summer, the mall in Washington, DC is transformed into a huge stage for one of the largest festivals of folk life in the world. In 1986, Sam Schrager created a stage for one of America’s greatest unsung folk arts: trial opening statements and closing arguments. Those performances capped a year-long study Schrager conducted of the oral persuasion…