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

Author: Gerry Spence

Narrator: Gerry Spence

Abridged: 4 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/01/2005


Synopsis

From renowned trial attorney and New York Times bestselling author Gerry Spence: a must own book for every lawyer and business professional seeking to make cutting-edge winning presentations--in court, at work, everywhere, any time.

Gerry Spence is perhaps America's most renowned and successful trial lawyer, a man known for his deep convictions and his powerful courtroom presentations when he argues on behalf of ordinary people. Frequently pitted against teams of lawyers thrown against him by major corporate or government interests, he has never lost a criminal case and has not lost a civil jury trial since 1969.

In Win Your Case, Spence shares a lifetime of experience teaching you how to win in any arena-the courtroom, the boardroom, the sales call, the salary review, the town council meeting-every venue where a case is to be made against adversaries who oppose the justice you seek. Relying on the successful courtroom methods he has developed over more than half a century, Spence shows both lawyers and laypersons how you can win your cases as he takes you step by step through the elements of a trial-from jury selection, the opening statement, the presentation of witnesses, their cross-examinations, and finally to the closing argument itself.

Spence teaches you how to prepare yourselves for these wars. Then he leads you through the new, cutting-edge methods he uses in discovering the story in which you form the evidence into a compelling narrative, discover the point of view of the decision maker, anticipate and answer the counterarguments, and finally conclude the case with a winning final argument.

To make a winning presentation, you are taught to prepare the power-person (the jury, the judge, the boss, the customer, the board) to hear your case. You are shown that your emotions, and theirs, are the source of your winning. You learn the power of your own fear, of honesty and caring and, yes, of love. You are instructed on how to role-play through the use of the psychodramatic technique, to both discover and tell the story of the case, and, at last, to pull it all together into the winning final argument.

Whether you are presenting your case to a judge, a jury, a boss, a committee, or a customer, Win Your Case is an indispensable guide to success in every walk of life, in and out of the courtroom.

About Gerry Spence

Gerry Spence has been a trial attorney for more than five decades and proudly represents "the little people." He has fought and won for the family of Karen Silkwood, defended Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge, and represented hundreds of others in some of the most notable trials of our time. He is the founder of Trial Lawyer's College, a nonprofit school where, pro bono, he teaches attorneys for the people how to present their cases and win against powerful corporate and government interests. He is the author more than a dozen books, including The New York Times bestseller How to Argue and Win Every Time, From Freedom to Slavery, Give Me Liberty, and The Making of a Country Lawyer, and is a nationally known television commentator on the famous trials of our time. He lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.


Reviews

Big Idea: Tell Stories in the Present Tense; Charisma is the Transfer of Our Passion to Those With Whom We Communicate - Use descriptive language - We build walls to protect us from the fear of experiencing the self, and the pains of various childhood injury. - Inside these walls, most of us become con......more

Goodreads review by mark

I read this when first published and remember I really liked it. I became of aware of Spence during the OJ Trial (1994); when he would often comment on cable news (CNN). His formula is one I followed in writing a fictional trial of George W. Bush in my first novel, 'Attachment'. Now, watching the cu......more

Goodreads review by Jeremy

Although this book is marketed as a book on public speaking and persuasion, it is more about how to connect with other human beings on a basic level and how to manipulate them emotionally. The author clearly understands how to do this, as he demonstrates it in the multiple stories he tells. The book......more

A useful book. A useful book. I found it inspirational and useful. a good book to read for young and old lawyers alike. not to useful for today's corporate culture though.......more


Quotes

“As a course in integrity, love and talking from the heart, this program delivers in style and substance.” —AudioFile on How to Argue and Win Every Time

“Gerry Spence has become the Socrates of Jackson Hole.” —Larry McMurtry on How to Argue and Win Every Time

“Gerry Spence is one of America's last true originals--a man who thinks as brilliantly as he lives, who writes as compellingly as he talks, and who practices law as faithfully as most people practice religion.” —Dan Rather on How to Argue and Win Every Time


Awards

  • Audie Award Finalist