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Follow a trial lawyer's career through the demanding, often controversial, and suspenseful world of jury trials, tension-filled appeals and the different worlds of courtrooms, jail cells, corporate boardrooms, and law firms. Each of the cases in the nineteen chapters were selected from a total of his 150 jury trials to reflect issues of current importance, including refugees on the Mexican border, gargantuan gender battles inside one of the largest corporations in the world, sexual taboos on national television, accusations of terrorism, government agents who cheat, innocent prisoners in our jails, the constitutional right to speak and print the truth, bringing law to a war zone, poverty and murder on Native American Reservations, current problems of hunger in America, and more.
List of contents
Preface: The Reason I Wrote This Book
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Chapter 1: The Murder of Alice Secody on the Navajo Reservation
Chapter 2: Learning to be a Lawyer
Chapter 3: San Francisco Beckons
Chapter 4: The Pressures of a National Case
Chapter 5: Defending Criminal Cases at Last
Chapter 6: A Jury Does Justice
Chapter 7: Defending the Chronicle's Right to Publish
Chapter 8: The First Amendment Defense of a Television Movie
Chapter 9: Did I Make a Mistake Going on the Road to Hawaii?
Chapter 10: The FBI Rigged the Evidence
Chapter 11: An Awesome Woman Successfully Stands Up to a Powerful Man
Chapter 12: Defending Religion on the Mexican Border
Chapter 13: Ever Want to Cross-Examine Your Doctor?
Chapter 14: Exciting Times in the U.S. Supreme Court
Chapter 15: Iran Contra: Prosecuting Secretary of Defense, Caspar Weinberger
Chapter 16: An Innocent Man Walks Out of Jail Seventeen Years Later
Chapter 17: Two Lawyers are Murdered in Northern Ireland
Chapter 18: They Are Stealing Our Vote
Conclusion: Who Am I Now?
About the Author
Index
About the author
James J. Brosnahan was a federal prosecutor and a defense lawyer who tried 150 jury trials and is a member of the California Trial Lawyer’s Hall of Fame. He was a senior partner at Morrison Foerster, a preeminent thousand-lawyer international law firm based in San Francisco. For 46 years he has lectured internationally for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA). He has authored articles for the American Constitutional Blog, Law 360, The California Historical Society, The Daily Journal (California’s legal paper), the New York Times, Bloomberg Law, and the Los Angeles Times. He has also appeared many times on national radio and television where he has been interviewed by ABC, CNN, Fox News, Larry King, National Public Radio, and PBS. He currently lives in Berkeley, California.
Summary
From civil and criminal trials, all the way to the Supreme Court James Brosnahan saw it all in his career of suspenseful courtroom work.
