TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lubet Steven 
TI  - Nothing but the Truth:  Why Trial Lawyers Don't, Can't, and Shouldn't Have to Tell the Whole Truth
SN  - 9780814751749
U1  - 347.7375 LUB 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - New York
PB  - NYU Press
KW  -  Law
KW  - Trial practice
KW  - Truthfulness and falsehood
N1  - Includes index; 
Acknowledgments; introduction Storytelling Lawyers; 1. Biff and Me: Stories That Are Truer Than True; 2. Edgardo Mortara: Forbidden Truths; 3. John Brown: Political Truth and Consequences; 4. Wyatt Earp: Truth and Context; 5. Liberty Valance: Truth or Justice; 6. Atticus Finch: Race, Class, Gender, and Truth; 7. Sheila McGough: The Impossibility of the Whole Truth; Index; About the Author
N2  - Lubet's Nothing But The Truth presents a novel and engaging analysis of the role of storytelling in trial advocacy. The best lawyers are storytellers, he explains, who take the raw and disjointed observations of witnesses and transform them into coherent and persuasive narratives. Critics of the adversary system, of course, have little patience for storytelling, regarding trial lawyers as flimflam artists who use sly means and cunning rhetoric to befuddle witnesses and bamboozle juries. Why not simply allow the witnesses to speak their minds, without the distorting influence of lawyers' strata
ER  -