Product Description: Author-specific linguistic patterns can be objectively described and often measured, making author identification possible in many cases. The primary goal of this text is to demonstrate the validity of this claim, as well as to address the use of stylistic analysis for author identification and meaning interpretation...read more

Product Description: First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: This book examines the role of expert witnesses in the legal system and the role of science in the law. The author analyzes the history of science and the law, and demonstrates through modern and historical examples how lawyers routinely use science to secure convictions...read more

Product Description: An attorney and an expert in using probability in decision making describe a powerful new approach to presenting scientific evidence and cross examining expert witnesses in court. Using clear practical terms, they explain the principles of interpretation applicable to all forms of scientific evidence...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The American court system is making increasing use of sociologists as expert witnesses. From toxic torts to religious cults and brainwashing, sociological knowledge is becoming increasingly more commonplace in the legal arena. This edited volume is a collection of the experiences of sociologists who have appeared as expert witnesses in a variety of court cases...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A significant advance over the previous edition, this title contains new information you need to know about driver perception and response.While the basic subject matter--driver perception and perception-response time--remains the same, chapters have been added that cover in greater depth material that was briefly mention in the first edition...read more

An expose of the faulty testimony of psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers and its detrimental influence on jurors in criminal and child custody cases shows readers how to protect themselves against it. $20,000 ad/promo. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This tape provides an instructive program that helps prepare the listener to become an expert witness and present testimony in cases involving sexual and physical assault of children, assault against women and homicide. It will be useful to any professional called upon for expert testimony...read more

Product Description: Attempting to reconcile the law's need for workable rules of evidence with the views of scientific validity and reliability.What is "scientific knowledge" and when is it reliable? These deceptively simple questions have been the source of endless controversy...read more

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Is it "just words" when a lawyer cross-examines a rape victim in the hopes of getting her to admit an interest in her attacker? Is it "just words" when the Supreme Court hands down a decision or when business people draw up a contract? In tackling the question of how an abstract entity exerts concrete power, Just Words focuses on what has become the central issue in law and language research: what language reveals about the nature of legal power.Conley and O'Barr show how the microdynamics of the legal process and the largest questions of justice can be fruitfully explored through the field of linguistics. Each chapter covers a language-based approach to a different area of the law, from the cross-examinations of victims and witnesses to the inequities of divorce mediation. Combining analysis of common legal events with a broad range of scholarship on language and law, Just Words seeks the reality of power in the everyday practice and application of the law. As the only study of its type, the book is the definitive treatment of the topic that will be welcomed by students and specialists alike.

Provides background information and gathers the great closing arguments that concluded some of the most famous cases of the twentieth century.

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Product Description: How do lawyers sway jurors in the heat of a trial? Why do the best trial lawyers seem uncannily able to get the verdict they want? In answering these questions, the author vindicates but with a twist the widespread belief that lawyers are actors who manipulate the truth...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Addressing the needs of both new and experienced practitioners.Enter the courtroom confident and prepared using this recently published edition. Learn how to earn lucrative expert witness fees, respond effectively to depositions and interrogations, prepare exhibits, work with the rules of evidence, and more...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This publication is directed at both attorneys and statisticians to ensure they will work together successfully on the application of statistics in the law. Attorneys will learn how best to utilize the statistician's talents, while gaining an enriched understanding of the law relevant to audits, jury selection, discrimination, environmental hazards, evidence, and torts as it relates to statistical issues...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Introduces the most memorable opening and closing arguments from the past century of American legal battles in the courtroom, featuring more than two dozen selections that highlight diverse facets of the legal process, including such cases as Patty Hearst, Michael Skakel, Timothy McVeigh, Ethel Rosenberg, Karen Silkwood, and more. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

If you are like many of your colleagues, you are intrigued by the practice of forensic psychiatry and find the intellectual challenge of bridging the gap between psychiatry and law stimulating. You may even wish to offer your services as an expert witness in legal proceedings. However, your enthusiasm is tempered by the all too real nightmare of a lawyer puncturing your testimony with pointed questions, simultaneously destroying your professional reputation. Furthermore, you face the prospect of establishing your practice in forensic psychiatry through a grueling process of trial and error, a procedure that may also tarnish your reputation. In order to leave the familiar surroundings of your clinical practice to enter this new environment, you need a comprehensive, Ahow-toA manual that can guide you through the legal process and your role as expert witness while highlighting the pitfalls strewn in your path. The Psychiatrist as Expert Witness provides practical, hands-on instruction for your role as an expert witness. A companion volume to The Psychiatrist in Court: A Survival Guide, this book encapsulates, into a single user-friendly volume, the wisdom and experience of one of the worldAs leading forensic psychiatrists, Dr. Thomas Gutheil. Using wit and an informal tone, Dr. Gutheil describes the ethical, clinical, and functional role of the expert witness. He guides you through the details of case evaluation, discovery and depositions, and trials so that you can provide truthful, ethical, and effective testimony and avoid potential hazards and pitfalls. Sharing dozens of invaluable hints and practical advice on numerous subjects such as writing forensic reports, withstanding cross-examination, maintaining objectivity, marketing your services ethically, and concluding fee agreements, Dr. Gutheil helps smooth your way into this exciting field. Armed with this knowledge and guidance, you will be fully prepared to embark on your career as an expert witness. Whether you are a seasoned professional or just a beginner, The Psychiatrist as Expert Witness is a reference that you cannot be without.

Product Description: Designed to assist college law students as well as senior partners, this illustrated how-to guide teaches corporate lawyers how to speak persuasively while thinking on their feet and polish their personal style. Based on more than 25 years of experience coaching practicing attorneys, Johnson and Hunter's innovative techniques—which incorporate cutting-edge discoveries in linguistics, neuroscience, and sports psychology—help transactional lawyers look, sound, and feel natural while speaking in public...read more

Product Description: Purposeful communication will strengthen your ability to persuade. Drawing on the premise that persuasion must be purposeful, The Persuasive Edge lays out the case for making meaningful choices at each stage in trial preparation and at trial...read more