The goal of The How-To-Win Trial Manual: A No-Holds Barred Sure-Fire Way to Win is to help you do just that – win. Written by Ralph Adam Fine, a former judge for the Wisconsin Court of Appeals, The How-To-Win Trial Manual provides techniques for the busy trial lawyer that require minimal time to learn and hone but will provide a lifetime of reliable skills. After a brief discussion of some important tools of persuasion, the author dives into the heart of his book: various ways to help you win your case.
Read moreLegal Research with a Side of Vaccine
At the Law Library, we want to connect our patrons with the most useful legal and government information available. Harris County Public Health has created an easy process that allows everyone to register for the vaccine through HCPH and other local providers on their website. To help all of our patrons access the tools they need to get vaccinated and help get things back to normal, we have added the HCPH website as a convenient shortcut to every public computer in the Law Library.
Read moreLatest & Greatest - The Adoption Law Handbook: Practice, Resources, and Forms for Family Law Professionals
Adoption can be a tricky process and generally requires the assistance of an experienced adoption professional to ensure that the adoption is done correctly within the proper jurisdiction and in conformance with applicable state laws. To shed some light on this often complicated process, attorney and author Jennifer Fairfax has prepared The Adoption Law Handbook: Practice, Resources, and Forms for Family Law Professionals.
Read moreLatest & Greatest – Building a Better Law Office: Become a Better Lawyer in Five Minutes a Day
Whether you’ve been a lawyer for decades or whether you are an attorney just starting out, you could benefit from reading Building a Better Law Practice: Become a Better Lawyer in Five Minutes a Day. In his preface, author Jeremy W. Richter points out that being a good lawyer requires continually improving your craft and that this act of betterment requires time and energy, perhaps two things one does not have at the end or (sometimes) the middle of the day. In this regard, Richter has written a book to help lawyers build a better practice, and he has done so in a “daily reading” format that takes only five minutes a day.
Read moreLatest & Greatest - Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court
The Harris County Robert W. Hainsworth Law Library recently added two copies of Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court to its collection. This book, which is summarized in this blog post, examines the history of women who have been considered as nominees for the U.S. Supreme Court.
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