Unconventional Wisdom: How Two of America’s Top Trial Lawyers Win Cases

This book was written for trial lawyers who handle wrongful injury cases. It’s about how to achieve great results for your clients. Sure, most cases are settled, not tried. But to achieve the best settlement for your client, you have to be an able trial lawyer because it’s the apprehension of a big verdict that motivates opponents to settle. And trial skills are readily transferable to pre-trial skills, which help make cases better, whether or not they are eventually settled or tried. So excel­lent trial skills are indispensable. First of all, this book is not about theory. It is about actual things that occur in a courtroom, or before or after trial. It is based on our combined 80-plus years of knowl­edge, most of it since 1995 when we formed the Philadel­phia-based law firm of Kline & Specter, PC, now the largest plaintiff’s firm in Pennsylvania and one of the largest in the country. Second, this book often stands conventional wisdom on its head. Partly that’s because some co