Win Your Case: How to Present, Persuade, and Prevail--Every Place, Every Time

A must read for many one who is involved in any type of court case especially employment tribunals or high court were showing respect to the judge (Ma Lord) is of paramount importance. Gerry uses many examples and is passionate about his work. Highly recommended.

A great read and very simple common sense approach. Very very useful to study if you are engaged in any legal battle

Spence joins the legal substance of a good argument with emotions. He wraps it up in eloquence and sells it to the audience. This however is not justice. It's a game. Should Joey be sentenced to death for murdering a little girl? After all, Joey was himself abused as a child by his drugged mother who was failed by the state. But was she really? Was the state an excuse for the mother to fall into drugs instead of plodding through life despite numerous hardships? How many mothers are strong and resilient enough to raise good citizens despite of abject poverty and an alcoholic husband? How many despicably abused children show immense determination to raise above their plight and overcome their childhood nightmares to become decent adults without reverting to taking an innocent life? Joey's hard life is not an excuse and should never be sold as such. Spence constructs good emotional and compelling arguments. He knows the jury listens to emotions and hardly ever to facts. All humans do. However Spence's arguments can be rebutted with an equally compelling argument to a human nature, equally emotional but grounded in reality and the life itself. The only good advice I took from his book was that we MUST care about our case to project it to the bench and the jury. In order to come across passionate and truthful we must believe and we must care deeply. The rest of the book is an overtly emotional drivel filled with numerous assumptions as to the human nature. No grey areas. All is black and white for Spence and I strongly go against that approach.

Great book with an underlying theme of be yourself and respect others.

This is a very good book. Written straight from the heart. It is greed that attracts many lawyers to read about Mr. Spence and his successes. Others may simply be hoping for morsels of trial skills that can save or better them. I was initially skeptical of Mr. Spence; I thought he might be a limelight- and publicity-seeking opportunist of the same genre of Johnnie Cochran, F. Lee Bailey, Melvin Belli, and/or other high profile trial lawyers. Not so with Mr. Spence. His record speaks for itself. He quite generously shares the internal insights that set him apart from other mega-successful trial lawyers. If you are a lawyer that confines yourself to advice, research, settlement negotations, and/or bench trials, away from the ultra-risky human connection with jurors, this may not be such a compelling read. If you want to be an effective trial lawyer with little or no fear of trying cases before juries, this is a special book. What amazed me is how Mr. Spence sprung from such humble, tragedy-filled beginnings to the height of the legal profession. Mr. Spence has persuaded me that all intellectual force springs from internal feelings. Having spent the last 30 years believing that "feeling" is a dumbed-down substitute for intellect and reason, I am convinced by this book that, in suppressing feeling, I have been missing an important part of life. Anyway, this is a book that should be taken seriously, and I came away from having a suspicious opinion about Mr. Spence, to an admiration and appreciation of his great intellect (in spite of his discounting advanced intellect as a human virtue).

Well drafted book by a knowledgeable and respected author.

Not being a big fan of How to books, specially coming out of the USA approached this with my usual tepidation. Happy to report that Gerry Spence trumped me with his candour & ability to break up the entire managment of the case into small, manageable tasks with clear determinable mileposts. What is really heartening to read from an hard nosed lawyer, is his deep philosophical teachings like being honest in your approach & the primal motivation before any attorney, to get justice for his/her clients. Would surely like to recommend this to anyone who wants to succeed in dealing with power centers and has to present his case/point/proposal in a civilised manner in different power equations. The insights are practical & implementation ready. Moreover the breezy style of writing peppered with the right doze of down to earth humour & slice of life observations makes it a pleasant read.

You want some advice about how to be you in court and in your daily life this is a good book with great insight along with "How to Argue and win every time"

A good book for anyone who needs to be credible and persuasive