Spotlight on Tigar
Michael E. Tigar
Recognized as one of the country's top litigators and an extraordinary teacher, Michael Tigar has championed personal rights and freedoms throughout his career. The son of a blue collar worker and the first in his family to attend college, he led the rising radical student movement at the University of California, Berkeley, in the early 1960s.
In 1966, Tigar graduated first in his class from Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law and was hired by famed trial lawyer Edward Bennett Williams. He argued his first case before the U.S. Supreme Court just three years later. His most famous cases include his defense of Vietnam War draftees, the Chicago Seven war protestors, Angela Davis, John Demjanjuk, Terry Nichols, Lynne Stewart and countless others.
Michael Tigar has authored three books for the ABA: Examining Witnesses, Persuasion and Fighting Injustice. He currently teaches at American University Washington College of Law and is of counsel in his wife Jane's law firm, The Tigar Law Firm.
Tigar's Books and Programs
This memoir combines the compelling details of Tigar's trials (including private exchanges with judges, prosecutors, and defendants) with background information and observations about the law and American society. More than one lawyer's struggle, Fighting Injustice is an incisive examination of the right to counsel and the threats that have jeopardized this right repeatedly over the past four decades—and today.
Updated and expanded, Examining Witnesses, Second Edition provides the theory, techniques, and strategy guidance needed to use witnesses effectively in trial. Practical and comprehensive, it covers virtually every type of witness and witness situation you are likely to encounter. It covers the entire trial process, from the first client meeting through seeing, shaping, presenting, and summing up the case.
Michael E. Tigar has distilled 30 years of litigating and studying effective advocates into this valuable book which contains critical keys to persuading jurors and judges. Starting with a brief background on classical rhetoric and persuasion theories, the author takes you step-by-step through the process of building your case and refining your presentation.
