Blog readers know that I am terribly proud of the work that the Litigation Section of the State Bar does with its publications, with the quarterly magazine The Advocate and the quarterly online magazine News for the Bar. The latter has its new Winter 2011 issue out, which can be downloaded here: News for the Bar - Winter 2011 . If you're not a member, you really ought to be, because this issue alone is a blockbuster with useful substantive articles acros the board for litigators, including witness prep, bankruptcy practice, appellate and federal updates, and so forth. And at the very end because, let's face it - what could top it - is an article by yours truly about ... office toys. (No, I can't believe I've sunk to this level either).
In this issue:
- Chair’s Message: An Overview of the Litigation Section Council and Its Work, by Linda McDonald
- What You’re Not Saying Says Everything: Lessons from Science on Prepping the Witness
by Barry Nash and Jaine E. Fraser, Ph.D - Crazy Like Hamlet, Or How A Little Short-Term Schizophrenia Can Improve Your Legal Work Product, by Gretchen S. Sween
- Crossing Over - A Civil Litigator’s First Criminal Trial: Prosecuting Warren Jeffs: An Interview with Fields Alexander, by Will Hailey
- Advice from the Bench: Tips for Practicing in Federal Bankruptcy Courts from Chief Judge Marvin Isgur, U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, by Marcos Rosales
- Summer Internship Stipends Available for Legal Aid Providers
- Appellate Update, by Richard Salgado
- Federal Update, by Jason Fulton
- Misnomer v. Misidentification: Mistakes and Mislabels, by Robinson C. Ramsey
- Office Toys, by Michael C. Smith
