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    The Mother Court: Tales of Cases that Mattered in America's Greatest Trial Court
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    The Mother Court: Tales of Cases that Mattered in America's Greatest Trial Court

    By James D. Zirin and Robert M. Morgenthau

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    This is the first book to chronicle the history of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, the most influential District court in the United States, from the perspective of a practicing attorney who has argued many cases before some of its most esteemed judges.

    It gives first-hand insight into the evolution of our justice system—where it has been, where it is now and where it is going. It provides an anatomy of what a trial is all about in an American courtroom, featuring the most famous trials of the period in the greatest court in the nation. It gives the reader a taste of what the storied judges of the period— Weinfeld, Murphy, Mansfield, Tyler, Motley and Palmieri, to name a few—were all about, how they thought, how they judged, and why they were the worthy keepers of our sacred right to justice, as well as the historical traditions of the Court.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAmerican Bar Association
    Release dateJun 19, 2014
    ISBN9781627223232
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    The Mother Court: Tales of Cases that Mattered in America's Greatest Trial Court
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    James D. Zirin

    JAMES D. ZIRIN a former Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, where he served in the Criminal Division under the legendary Robert Morgenthau. His writing has appeared in major periodicals such as Forbes, the LA Times, the London Times, the Washington Times, the Nation, and the New York Law Journal. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. A graduate of Princeton University, Zirin received his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School.

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      I'm not precisely sure what the author was getting at with this book; I will grant you, I was reading a pre-publication copy, and things might have changed in the final version. The author discusses (mostly) the federal court for the Southern District of New York, and relates anecdotes about the judges, attorneys and cases of the 20th century and early 21st century that have figured there. It's fairly thin and superficial, and to some extent, I found the tributes to certain judges and other personnel a bit gooey in their ardour. There's also quite a lot of citations; I suppose, being an ABA book, this is to be expected, but the casual (non-legal) reader might well be baffled by them. I also got a bit of an impression that the author was settling a score or two with some swipes at a few judges in the end. Only recommended, really, if you're a lawyer (as I am), and even then, not a particularly engrossing read.