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by Seymour Wishman (Author)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (October 28, 1982)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0140063609
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140063608
  • Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,410,266 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Deconstructing zealous advocacy, September 3, 2001
By Julian P Killingley (Wakefield, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This is a book that it is easy to underestimate. I came to it through following a citation in a law review article. At first I thought it was little more than a run-of-the-mill account of how criminal defense lawyers set about their job. I was a little uncomfortable about the Damascene conversion that Wishman claims followed a confrontation with "Mrs Lewis", a rape victim that he had bruisingly cross-examined. In my experience lawyers, and I include myself among them, are not given to navel gazing, self-doubts and bouts of introspection.

However, by the end of the book Wishman had won me over. The book operates very much on two levels. One is aimed at a broad lay readership and deals with the FAQs that lay persons put to criminal defense lawyers. Wishman deals with these confidently and entertainingly - usually using war stories to illustrate his points. He does a good line in self-deprecation. I particularly liked the tale about the police officer with acute hearing that he uses to illustrate the old advice that you should never ask a question to which you do not know the answer.

The second level is one that is really aimed at a professional readership. The subtext of the book is concerned with the ethical dimensions of zealous advocacy. Wishman is all too aware that Donald Schon's "Reflective Practitioner" is more of an aspiration than a reality. He uses the device of his confrontation with Mrs Lewis as a starting point for examining what lawyers, whether for the defense or prosecution, should be doing and how much responsibility they should accept for their behavior in the courtroom. Practitioners who have spent any significant amount of time in the courtroom will recognize many of the dilemmas Wishman discusses - and perhaps will be encouraged to reflect on their role and performance in the way that Schon proposed.

All in all, an easy and enlightening read for both laymen and lawyers.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Revealing and somewhat self-effacing, September 10, 1999
This is the sort of book that surprises you as you read it. It is tightly edited but at first seems rather pedestrian. There is the pall of gloom and depression that one would expect from a criminal lawyer's tales of prosecuting and defending clients in Newark, New Jersey. Yet as the pages go by the book gains in power and effect. It's a dirty business, unfair, but one that has to be done and in the end one that we are doing as best we can, perhaps.

Seymour is a card-carrying, bleeding-heart liberal who visited the Soviet Union as a college student in a friendship program in the sixties, a Jew whose father walked halfway across Eastern Europe to immigrate to the US, a man who gets a lot of personal satisfaction from defending the underdogs of society. One of the surprises in the book is how much he reveals about himself that is not positive. Yet he does manage to bottom line it that he is a good guy.

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