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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgment
1. Introduction
I. Lawyers Are Storytellers
II. Legal Arguments Are Stories in Disguise
III. The Parts of a Story
IV. Movies and Closing Arguments
2. Plotting I: The Basics
I. What Is Plot?
II. Plot Structure in Two Movies
3. Plotting II: Plot Structure in a Closing Argument to a Jury in a Complex Torts Case
I. The “Backstory”
II. Annotated Excerpts from Gerry Spence’s Closing Argument on Behalf of Karen Silkwood
III. Concluding Observations
4. Character Lessons: Character, Character Development, and Characterization
I. Introduction: Why Emphasize Movie Characters in Legal Storytelling?
II. What Is Character, and Why Is It Important to Legal Storytellers?
III. Flat and Round Characters and Static and Changing Characters—High Noon Revisited
IV. Techniques of Character Development and Characterization: Excerpts from Tobias Wolff’s This Boy’s Life
5. Characters, Character Development, and Characterization in a Closing Argument to a Jury in a Complex Criminal Case
I. The “Backstory”
II. Annotated Excerpts from Jeremiah Donovan’s Closing Argument on Behalf of Louis Failla
III. Concluding Observations
6. Style Matters: How to Use Voice, Point of View, Details and Images, Rhythms of Language, Scene and Summary, and Quotations and Transcripts in Effective Legal Storytelling
I. Backstory: Grading Law School Examinations
II. Preliminary Note: “Voice” and “Style”
III. Voice and Rhythm: “Staying on the Surface”
IV. The Use of Scene and Summary: “Showing and Telling”
V. Telling in Different Voices
VI. Perspective or Point of View
VII. Several Functions of Perspective: How Does Perspective (Point of View) Work, and What Work Does It Do?
VIII. Concluding Observations
7. A Sense of Place: Settings, Descriptions, and Environments
I. Introduction
II. Dangerous Territory: Contrasting Settings Evoking Danger and Instability in Joan Didion’s “The White Album” and the Judicial Opinion in a Rape Case
III. More Dangerous Places Where Bad Things Happen: Use of Physical Descriptions and Factual Details to Create Complex Environments in W. G. Sebald’s The Emigrants and the Petitioners’ Briefs in Two Coerced Confession Cases
IV. Settings and Environment as Villains and Villainy in the Mitigation Stories of Kathryn Harrison’s While They Slept and the Petitioner’s Brief in Eddings v. Oklahoma
V. Concluding Observations
8. Narrative Time: A Brief Exploration
I. Introduction
II. The Ordering of Discourse Time
III. Concluding Observations
9. Final Observations: Beginnings and Endings
Notes
Index
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