Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nizer has filled his book with courtroom strategy and insight. In a divorce case, a wife's plea for low alimony and a large property settlement generally means that she intends to remarry as soon as she gets her loot. Conversely, a demand for high alimony suggests that she has no immediate marriage prospects. Like the late Senator Joseph McCarthy, Nizer also favors waving a manila envelope full of "documents" to discomfort witnesses during crossexamination; the envelope is often empty. During direct examination of his client, he says, a good lawyer will stand...
Side of Angels. For all the book's courtroom lore and legal pyrotechnics, it also has one theme that is something of a bore: Louis Nizer. Often he seems only an ego with a law degree. He reduces cases to a contest between good guys and bad guys -with Nizer invariably on the side of the angels...
Nizer's celebration of his own triumphs (his defeats go unrecorded) has been high on the bestseller lists for weeks running. Apparently, not even a colossal ego can make courtroom drama uninteresting. Though Nizer very nearly pulls off the trick, the material triumphs over the author...
...read was from "Oliver Wendell Holmes." His quick-flashing smile is no smile at all, disappearing as swiftly as the sound of clicked heels. A young, black-haired, deep-eyed man with a jut jaw and a strong, handsome face, he looks improbable in rimless glasses and courtroom robes. But he thoroughly commands the attention of both tribunal and audience. His performance is variously moving, impressive, terrifying and persuasive. For it he has just been named by the New York Film Critics the outstanding actor of 1961, and he will be a front-running candidate for an Oscar this spring...
...bureaucrat's daughter and becomes a civil servant. When his wife is unfaithful, Emile turns venal and takes money from her lover "for the entertainment." Fearful that the pair might kill him, Emile murders his wife with the lover's revolver. In a hilarious scene of courtroom parody, the lover is sentenced to a 20-year jail term, and Emile yelps gleefully to the audience "That's the system...