Shark Tales: True (and Amazing) Stories from America's Lawyers

By Ron Liebman

Book Overview

It's no secret that Americans are fascinated by lawyers and the legal system. From the media obsession with hot-button trials to the non-stop sales of John Grisham's novels, to the popularity of such television shows as Ally McBeal and The Practice, our society continually demonstrates a boundless interest in the nitty-gritty dealings, intrigues, idiocies, and (sometimes) idealism that exists on both sides of the bar. Gathered from a wide variety of attorneys and legal authorities, these jaw-dropping, real-life stories from the battlefields of law offer up a hilarious gallery of quirky judges, flabbergasted lawyers, and defendants with wonderfully idiosyncratic opinions on crime and punishment. Funny, revealing, and free of case precedents, Shark Tales is the perfect gift for law school-bound college graduates, men and women on the brink of taking arduous bar exams, practicing lawyers, and ordinary folk who can't resist a lawyer joke or two to brighten the day.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684857286
• ISBN13: 9780684857282
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Things Lawyers Talk About in Bars

Lawyers don't have the reputation of being particularly funny. This comes from the requirement that lawyers maintain a stern or inscrutable demeanor when a witness splits his pants wide open leaving the witness stand. However in lawyer bars across the land, alone with our own kind( don't ask ), lawyers tell "war stories," collected here by Ron Liebman.Parts of this book, my own contribution excepted, are truly funny. Imagine the elder statesman of a major firm, addressing a gaggle of Japanese businessmen (prospective clients no less) in Tokyo, by reminiscing about the last time he had seen the city... from the air... as a World War II bomber pilot...or join the young lawyer trying his first case watching as a juror suddenly exits the jury box during his closing argument. Theyoung man's mouth might still be agape had not his more senior colleague rose to say "Personally Judge I didn't think he was that bad."OK, so Jay Leno is in no trouble here, but if you are at all curious about what we really talk about, Liebman let's you know.