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New York Law Journal

How President Dwight Eisenhower and Chief Justice Earl Warren Transformed Civil Rights

This book makes an important contribution to the public discourse, particularly in an age where the president openly and inappropriately criticizes the federal judiciary and law enforcement.
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

Objections: Making Them and Opposing Them

It does a particularly good job of discussing the landmark Crawford case, the U.S. Supreme Court decision that has had such a dramatic impact on the use of hearsay evidence in criminal cases.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Book Review: Treatise Covers the Bases on the Defense of Civil and Criminal Probes

First published in 2011, and now in its fourth edition, this handbook of best practices for handling government investigations makes important contributions to the professionalism of this preeminent area of the law.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judging Justice Scalia

Dechert partner Benjamin Rosenberg reviews Richard Hasen's book "The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and The Politics of Disruption."
1 minute read

New York Law Journal

Trump's Trade Policies – A Broad Perspective

Three books were recently published that help in the broad assessment of where President Trump's policies fit into U.S. political and international history. The fit is not good.
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

2018 Attorneys' Guide to Civil Practice in the New York County Supreme Court

For the past 22 years, NYCLA's Committee on the Supreme Court has published its annually updated Attorneys' Guide to Civil Practice in the New York County Supreme Court, which is an exceptional guide book covering all aspects of litigating in Manhattan. And once again the 23rd edition of the Attorneys' Guide does not disappoint.
1 minute read

New York Law Journal

Author's Resignation From the Bar Provides Fodder for Engaging Novel

The plot conflict is summed up by one quote: "Law school may teach you the law, but it doesn't teach you how to be a lawyer."
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Why Lawyers Need to Learn to Write Clearly

Many factors cause lawyers to write turgidly, including a limited knowledge of how to write in plain English and a belief that readers prefer dense writing to simple, interesting, easy-to-understand writing.
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

Book Review: 'A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership' by James Comey

Comey is an excellent writer. Although the book discusses complex legal issues, the narrative is at once both understandable for the general reader and interesting to the typical lawyer.
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

Book Review: Lessons From the Chinese Exclusion Act

As the book reminds us, Chinese exclusion was hurtful, harmful, ineffective, misguided and shortsighted.
6 minute read

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