Trial and Error: The Education of a Courtroom Lawyer

FEATURED Trial and Error: The Schooling of a Courtroom Lawyer

Trial and Error delivers an unexpurgated examination of the previous half-century of American jurisprudence through the lifestyle of a single of America’s most celebrated and completed attorneys. Here is John C. Tucker, a man who twice argued prior to the Supreme Court and won, challenged the nefarious and discriminatory practice of “contract lending” and lost, participated in such monumental circumstances as the Chicago Eight trial following the calamitous 1968 Democratic Convention—and retired at age fifty-1, securely established as 1 of the most respected jurists of his generation. In Trial and Error, he describes with poise and wit his encounters with as varied a cast of characters as Muhammad Ali, Abbie Hoffman, and Chief Justice Earl Warren, even though chronicling the outstanding successes, and sobering disappointments, of his distinguished profession. This is an honest and uncompromising analysis of the events that have shaped our court method, and the inspiring story of a man for principle in an escalating