See You In Court!
- Category: Nonfiction » Law » Courts & trial practice
- Category: Nonfiction » True Crime » General crimes
- Published: Jan. 28, 2012
- Words: 57,520
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781465767370
BARRY S. WILLDORF is a graduate of Columbia Law School and a member in good standing of both the NY (retired) and California bars. He has an AV rating from Martindale and Hubbell and has been lead attorney in well over one hundred trials of all kinds, civil, criminal and military. He began his legal career as a criminal investigator for the N.Y. Legal Aid Society. He has been a Judge Pro Tem and an arbitrator on the A.A.A., Kaiser, FINRA and NYSE panels. Over the past two decades, he has litigated or been arbitrator on a number of medical malpractice claims and has represented hundreds of people swindled in real estate and securities frauds. He has extensive experience evaluating forensic evidence. His legal writings include authorship of jury instructions dealing with fraud and misrepresentation for Matthew Bender’s California Forms of Jury Instructions, editing Matthew Bender’s Trial Master series, How to Pass the LSAT’s, Monarch Press, 1969 and several articles dealing with the Second Amendment. In 2005, the San Francisco AIDS Legal Referral Panel named him “Attorney Of The Year”.
Barry was born in New York City and grew up in Malden and Gloucester, MA, where he was one of the earliest surfers on the North Shore. He graduated from Colby College in 1966 with a B.A. in History and earned a J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1969. He also studied history at the University of Manchester in England in the mid-sixties. Barry was the founder of the Southern California Military Law Project representing servicemen in all service branches during the Vietnam War. He has lived in San Francisco since 1970 and homesteaded in Mendocino County between 1977 and 1993. He is married, has three children and three grandchildren. Barry brings all of these life and career experiences to his novels.
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Reviews of See You In Court! by Barry Willdorf
Well written, entertaining even when discussing the inherently dry topic of the Law, this book is an excellent guide. My current work in progress has several courtroom scenes, which is why I wanted to read it, and was not disappointed.
Only caveat is, the book is specific to the USA, while my book is set in Australia, so there are differences I need to take into account.
See You In Court, will be a value resource when I write my courtroom scenes in my Urban Murder Mystery. And, my g'daughter is in 1st Law at Uni so I'll be able to converse with her on an intelligent level. :)
From the table of contents, you'll see this is a very thorough document. The lawyer/author has covered everything, and more, a layman needs to know. I like the clear writing style and entertaining approach to a serious subject. It's nice to have a book that takes you behind the scenes; allows you to be an insider in a closed society. This is a book I will often refer to. Thank you Barry S. Willdorf.