This a list of recommended books for lawyers and anybody interested in persuasion, presentation and story. You can click on images of the books to purchase

General- Trial Guides

Culture Code by Clotaire Rapaille

David Ball on Damages 3 by David Ball

Grief and Loss by Robert T. Hall and Mila Ruiz Tecala

Moe Levine on Advocacy by Moe Levine

Persuasive Communication by Eric Oliver

Polarizing the Case by Rick Friedman

Reptile by David Ball and Don Keenan

Rules of the Road by Rick Friedman and Patrick Malone

Show the Story: The Power of Visual Advocacy by William S. Bailey & Robert W. Bailey

Trial in Action by Joane Garcia Colson, Fredilyn Sison & Mary Peckham

Twelve Heroes, One Voice by Carl Bettinger

General

Litigating Truck Accident Cases by Michael Jay Leizerman

The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande

Experts must have a checklist, literally. Like Malcolm Gladwell, Gawande is a contributor to The New Yorker who uses examples from his field of medicine, but which are applicable to law. I hate the checklist idea of law. Anybody who has seen me at trial or deposition knows that I hardly ever use notes, and certainly never a deposition checklist. And yet I believe that I can do this because I am so prepared because I’ve gone through the checklist of case preparation before getting to these critical stages.

Drive by Daniel H. Pink

In the Line of Fire: How to Handle Tough Questions When it Counts by Jerry Weissman

Just Listen by Mark Goulston

Made to Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck

Mistakes Were Made (but not by me) by Carol Tavris

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely

Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

The Logic of Failure by Dietrich Dorner

Rick Friedman On Becoming a Trial Lawyer

The Influentials by Ed Keller and Jon Berry

The idea of The Influentials is that critical mass for ideas and products come from one in ten Americans who are “influentials.” A great example of this is the Jones Family in the mediocre-but-thought-provoking movie The Joneses. You can identify Influentials through 11 questions.These 11 questions have successfully predicted the fore-person of several of my juries.

A Sense of Urgency by John P. Kotter

Win Your Case by Gerry Spence

Influence by Robert Cialdini

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman

Working with Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman

Social Intelligence by Daniel Goleman

Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki

Richard Bandler’s Guide to Trance-Formation by Richard Bandler

Language

Words that Work by Frank Luntz

If You Want to Write by Brenda Ueland

Garner on Language and Writing

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Marketing

The Zen of Social Media Marketing by Shana Hyder Kubani

Marketing Metaphoria by Gerald Zaltman

Story

The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell

The Writer’s Journey by Christopher Vogler

The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

Visual Presentation

presentation zen by Garr Reynolds

This book changed the way I create PowerPoint presentation at conferences and at trial. The book emphasizes clean graphics with no bullet points, few words and graphics that highlight the talk, not give it.

Word processing

Formatting Legal Documents with Microsoft Word 2010 by Jan Berinstein