Tcl - Lawyers' Poker: 52 Lessons That Lawyers Can Learn from Card Players - April 2007 - Review of Legal Resources

• Publication year: 2007
• Pages: 58
• Citation: Vol. 36 No. 4 Pg. 58

36 Colo.Law. 58 Colorado Lawyer 2007.

2007, April, Pg. 58. TCL - Lawyers' Poker: 52 Lessons That Lawyers Can Learn From Card Players - April 2007 - Review of Legal Resources

The Colorado Lawyer
April 2007
Vol. 36, No. 4 [Page 58]

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Review of Legal Resources

Lawyers' Poker: 52 Lessons That Lawyers Can Learn From Card Players

by Matthew Crouch

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LAWYERS' POKER: 52 LESSONS THAT LAWYERS CAN LEARN FROM CARD PLAYERS
by Steven Lubet (Oxford University Press, 2006: 198 Madison Ave., New York, NY, 10016-4314; (800) 445-9714 http://www.oup.com); 273 pp.; $28

Reviewed by Matthew Crouch

Crouch is an associate with the firm Riggs, Abney, Neal, Turpen, Orbison & Lewis, P.C., where he specializes in taxation, bankruptcy, and general practice -
mcrouch@riggsabney.com.

When was the last time you looked at your opposing counsel and wondered, "What does he have up his sleeve?" - especially when you were sure you had all the aces? Steven Lubet is a professor of law at Northwestern University, director of Northwestern's Advocacy and Professionalism program, and the author of Modern Trial Advocacy.(fn1) Here, in Lawyers' Poker: 52 Lessons That Lawyers Can Learn From Card Players (Lawyers' Poker), Lubet takes on the challenge of merging poker stratagems and theory with trial advocacy and tactics, and presents an intriguing and winning method of combining the two.

Although Lawyers' Poker initially seems geared toward trial attorneys and litigators, poker aficionados and fans of legal history also likely would enjoy this work. In...