Living on the Edge: Memories of a Trial Lawyer

Michael Makaroff spent fifty years going to court on an almost-daily basis. As a lawyer, he represented people at their best and their worst, handling murder, assault, theft, fraud, and other types of cases. He examined and cross-examined thousands of witnesses, experts, fraud artists, people with axes to grind, and on occasion, the innocent, all the time trying to win cases for clients. In this memoir, he reveals how the client/lawyer relationship works in case after case. With each client...