Trying Cases to Win: In One Volume

About the Book

This book is an indispensable resource for everyone who tries cases-whether civil or criminal - and for anyone who wants to learn the art of the trial lawyer. It sets forth a strategic method for any trial, and provides the techniques to deliver that strategy throughout every phase of the trial: openings, directs and cross, experts, and summations.

About the Author :
Herbert J. Stern is the founding member in the law firm of Stern Kilcullen & Rufolo. Stern received a B.A. degree from Hobart College and a J.D. degree from the University of Chicago Law School and holds five honorary degrees. Stern was an Assistant District Attorney, New York County, Homicide Bureau. He was the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 1971-1974 and prosecuted the mayors of Newark, Jersey City, and Atlantic City. He was appointed to serve as United States District Judge in the District of New Jersey, serving from 1974- 1987. He served as the United States Judge for Berlin in 1979. Stephen A. Saltzburg is the Wallace and Beverley Woodbury University Professor of Law and director of the Masters Program in Litigation and Dispute Resolution at George Washington University Law School. Professor Saltzburg joined the law faculty at George Washington University in 1990. He had previously taught at the University of Virginia School of Law since 1972. In 1996 he founded the master's program in Litigation and Dispute Resolution at GW. In 2004 Saltzburg was named Wallace and Beverley Woodbury University Professor of Law. Professor Saltzburg served as reporter for and later a member of the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and as a member of the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Evidence. He was the reporter for the Civil Justice Reform Act Committee for the District of Columbia District Court before he assumed the chair of that Committee. He has served as a special master in two class action cases in the District of Columbia District Court, and continues to serve as a mediator for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. He has mediated a variety of disputes involving public agencies as well as private litigants; has served as a sole arbitrator, panel chair, and panel member in domestic arbitrations; and has served as an arbitrator for the International Chamber of Commerce. Professor Saltzburg's public service includes serving as associate independent counsel in the Iran-Contra investigation; as deputy assistant attorney general in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, as the Attorney General's ex-officio representative on the U.S. Sentencing Commission; and as director of the Tax Refund Fraud Task Force, appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury. He currently serves as a council member in the ABA Litigation Section, and is a member of the ABA House of Delegates from the Criminal Justice Section. He was appointed to the ABA's Task Force on Terrorism and the Law and to the Task Force on Gatekeeper Regulation and the Professional in 2001, and to the President's Advisory Group on Citizen Detention and Enemy Combatant Issues in 2002. In 2001 he was appointed by Chief Judge Edward R. Becker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit as co-chair of the Task Force on the Selection of Lead Counsel in Class Actions, which published its final report in 2002. Saltzburg is the author of numerous books and articles on evidence, procedure, and litigation.