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Article: Black's Law.(Review)
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- Trial
- Article date:
- May 1, 1999
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1999 American Association for Justice, formerly Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA®). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Roy Black Simon & Schuster 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 320 pp, $25
Books about trials and trial lawyers fall into two broad categories: those written about lawyers and their trials and those written by the lawyers themselves about cases they have tried. The second category is always suspect, as even a good work can be fatally flawed by rampant self-adulation. Black's Law falls into this high-risk category, and I was perfectly ready to be under-whelmed, if not annoyed, by the book. I was not.
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