Gerry Spence’s Blog
This is the personal blog of famed trial lawyer Gerry Spence. The blog promises to provide insights into his more than 55 years of practice.
He writes in his inaugural post: "My greatest fear is that I will die before my life’s work is complete. That unfinished business includes joining you in this Internet world and sharing with you what I have learned. I hope you will hear my timid knocking at your door and let me in."
Author: Gerry Spence is a renowned trial lawyer, best-selling author, Trial Lawyers College founder, advocate, photographer and noted poet.
Blawg Related Categories: Careers • Civil Rights • Criminal Justice • Tort Law • Trials & Litigation • Blawg 100
Recent Posts from Gerry Spence’s Blog
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More Deep Thoughts from the Insane
Argus Thompson, who claims to be insane, writes as follows: The forest and its inhabitants have rights. Rights are not derived from man. Man acquires his rights from that same source as does the pollywog,…
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A Toast to Thanksgiving from the Insane
My friend, who I shall call Argus Thompson, made the following toast for Thanksgiving. Argue is insane, or at least he thinks he is: “Profit is American. The Pilgrams sought profit and that’s all right. God loved…
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A toast to Thanksgiving from the Insane
My friend, who I shall call Argus Thompson, made the following toast for Thanksgiving. Argue is insane, or at least he thinks he is: “Profit is American. The Pilgrams sought profit and that’s all right. …
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Closing Down the Whorehouse in Washington D.C.
Dwight asked what I thought of corporate firms and the appointment of Eric Holden as Attorney General. Holden works for one of the largest corporate law firms in the nation. I thought what I wrote…
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Our children as killers
In the end my principal rage against the death penalty is not reserved for those, innocent or not, who occupy a six-by-eight concrete cell on death row. I fight the idea of killing killers because…
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America’s great lie
The idea that we should furnish the poor with a public defender has been an effort to save our nation from shame – for sending the poor to prison without adequate representation. But today the…
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Murder by We, the People
As we have been considering murder here I received word that a close friend of mine, Dana Cole, a fine man, lawyer and a law school professor, has recently witnessed the murder of his client. I…
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On murder
“You can never beat the big one,” old Tom Fagen used to say. He was a grizzled, tough talking criminal defense attorney who was as sweet and easy inside as an Easter bunny. He was…
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For the love of murder
Why do we care about murder? We murder every day as regularly as we take our coffee in the morning. We murder in the fields of poverty, the poor beating out less than a…
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How to survive the tyrant Judge (part 3 of 3)
Part 3, The judge. Who is this Tyrant? We remember from Part 1 that the abused child likely sees the judge as a potential abuser. The child whose parent was self-centered and narcissistic, as…