Letters to a young lawyer / Alan M Dershowitz.

New York : Basic Books, 2001.

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Law and ethics.

Law and ethics -- United States.

Lawyers.

Lawyers -- United States.

Part I: Life and career: 1. Pick your heroes carefully

2. Live the passion of your times

Have a good enemies list

4. Don't do what you're best at

5. Don't have deathbed regrets

6. Don't follow off-the-rack advice

7. Don't limit your options by making a lot of money

8. Don't risk what you don't have enough of to get more of what you have plenty of

9. Is there an absolute morality?

10. Should good lawyers defend bad people?

11. Defending yourself from legal McCarthyism

12. How to balance idealism, realism and cynicism

13. Your last exam

14. Self-doubts

15. The Perfect is the enemy of the excellent

16. An Honourable profession?

17. Blowing the whistle

18. The Good, the bad, the honest and the dishonest

19. Your client is not your friend

20. Stop whining, start winning

Part II: Winning and losing: 21. Where can you learn advocacy?

22. Winning before a jury: the aha theory

23. Winning before a judge: political justice

24. Arguing in the Supreme Court

25. Who is your client?

26. Losing

27. Don't underestimate your opponent

28. The Prosecutor's blind spot

19. The Difference between a prosecutor and a defense attorney

30. Lawyers' morals - and other oxymorons

31. Know when to fight - and when to give in

32. Dealing with criticism

Part III: Being a good person: 33. Can a good lawyer be a good person?

34. Can you pass the "flouridation" test?

35. Graduating law students

36. Graduating university students

37. Why be a good person?

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