Gerry Spence On Taking Back The Courts

Some folks are bigger than their critics. When I asked Gerry Spence to look over a draft of my new book, I expected him to decline. But he did not. He wrote the introduction, proving once again that a kind gesture speaks far louder than noisy recrimination.
Introduction
To understand the nefarious carryings-on of the justice system you must ignore as irrelevant the professors who peddle to unwary law students and to the lobotomized bar ideas that are as archaic as the medical profession’s leaches of old. You must uniformly disbelieve as naked fraud the promises of...
June 13, 2011

Utterly Shameless Self-Promotion ...

... and an awful lot of fun, too.
To those of you who have wondered why I've not been on Chaz and AJ's morning show in a while, wonder no more. I'll be promoting my new book and raising Hell on 99.1 FM tomorrow morning at 7 a.m. Listen up.
June 12, 2011

F. Lee Bailey On Taking Back The Courts

Here's the foreward to my new book, Taking Back the Courts, written by an idol of mine, F. Lee Bailey. To say I was thrilled to get this review is an understatement.
FOREWORD
Several years ago I was asked by my most important client at the time to find him a fearless, highly skilled lawyer in Connecticut to take the lead in a monstrous case which was then degenerating rapidly. After questioning a number of colleagues to get recommendations, I set an interview with Norman Pattis of New Haven. We met at dinner. At first glance, as he entered the room, I noted a generous...
June 12, 2011

Kenneth Heath: Minds, Bodies and Murder

tinguishing mind from body is indecipherable from the mind’s standpoint. While neuroscientists can increasingly draw correlations between the underlying physical substrate of our mental lives and the manner in which we report our experience of the world, there is a vast divide between our theories of cellular activity and our theories of self. In other words, while we can associate mental states with physical conditions, there is a still a great divide between mind and matter. This is especially so in the law.
Consider the case of Kenneth Heath, 61, reported this...
June 11, 2011

Buy My Book!

June 8, 2011
Yeah, that’s right. The headline says it all. I want you to buy my book. Today. Head on over to Amazon.com and get a copy sent to you. Those of...

Oklahoma Bound

June 7, 2011
I’ve been tossing and turning a lot lately, visions of wind-swept Oklahoma on my mind, and the twang of tough men and women staring me down,...

Et Tu, Scotty?

June 7, 2011
Aw, never mind. Learning to walk away from sink holes is s lifelong effort. A shower and a good night's sleep put things perspective. The electronic...

Weinergate And The Government We Deserve

June 7, 2011
Representative Anthony Weiner is a liar, a cad and a hypocrite. We now know as much; he told us so when he confessed to what he had previously denied...

Taking Back The Courts

June 7, 2011
A friend of mine likens the publication of a book to the birth of a child, a peak experience that yields powerful feelings. I’ve yet to hold my...

Confounding DNA In The Annie Le Case

June 6, 2011
Our youngest son is mid-way through medical school. At dinner the other night, he and my wife were discussing the controversy surrounding neckties in...

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Taking Back the Courts
Norm Pattis Taking Back the Courts

The Wizard of Oz was one of my favorites movies as a kid. Little did I know judges were so much like the wizard, hiding behind empty trappings of power. This book tells you things you need to know about what really goes on in court. Read it, weep, and then demand that the courts do better.

In the Trenches
Norm Pattis In the Trenches

Plenty of lawyers write about the law, but few who write try cases. Judge for yourself whether I talk the talk and walk the walk in this collection of occasional essays about life in the law's trenches.

Juries and Justice
Norm Pattis Juries and Justice

How prepared are you to take seriously the notion that 'we the people' are, in fact, sovereign? Discover the secret, and unused, power of jurors. 'Ask why; then nullify.'

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Norm Pattis is a Connecticut based trial lawyer focused on high stakes criminal cases and civil right violations. He is a veteran of more than 150 jury trials, many resulting in acquittals for people charged with serious crimes, multi-million dollar civil rights and discrimination verdicts, and scores of cases favorably settled.

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