Winning Every Time: How to Use the Skills of a Lawyer in the Trials of Your Life Book

Lis Wiehl, one of the nation's leading trial lawyers, presents the first audiobook ever to teach listeners how to use a trial lawyer's skills to succeed in everyday life. WINNING EVERY TIME provides eight steps that can be incorporated into your daily life so that by "accessing your inner advocate," you can develop the self-confidence, positive attitude, and persuasive skills to stand up for yourself in almost any personal or business situation. Wiehl also demystifies law jargon to reveal how anyone can find confidence and success in their lives by applying the language, strategies, and know-how of successful trial lawyers. In addition to these eight steps, WINNING EVERY TIME provides real stories about real people whose lives have been transformed by advocacy.

Publishers Weekly

In this very engrossing spin on a self-help tract, Wiehl, legal analyst for Fox News and cohost of a daily radio show (The Radio Factor), explains how to make use of lawyerly thinking in everyday life. Drawing on years of trial experience, she provides the means for prevailing in such situations as getting a raise, communicating better with your partner or becoming a more effective parent. Dividing case methodology into eight sections ("The Theory of the Case"; "Discovery"; "The Closing Argument"; etc.), Wiehl makes legal theory spring to life with well-written anecdotes from her professional courtroom and personal lives, along with comments on high profile trials, including O.J. Simpson's. The lesson from that trial, Wiehl argues, is that one must present a story of the case that is based on fact and reasoning, rather than appearing pushy and aggressive to a jury. And in an example of sticking to the "theory" of one's case, Wiehl details how a frustrated father got his son to complete his nightly homework by keeping his emotions under control and maintaining control of the discussion a powerful theory indeed. 6-city author tour. Agent, Todd Shuster of Zachary Shuster Harmsworth. (May) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.