Lawyers, Liars and the Art of Storytelling - Shapiro, Jonathan
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Lawyers, Liars, and the Art of Storytelling demonstrates how to convey legal information in a cogent, persuasive way to the client who needs the help, to opposing counsel, and to the decision-maker who has to make the final call. In doing so it utilizes portions of famous real-life court transcripts and television scripts.

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Lawyers, Liars, and the Art of Storytelling demonstrates how to convey legal information in a cogent, persuasive way to the client who needs the help, to opposing counsel, and to the decision-maker who has to make the final call. In doing so it utilizes portions of famous real-life court transcripts and television scripts.
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Jonathan Shapiro is Of Counsel at Kirkland & Ellis for entertainment litigation. He also serves as the Chairman of the California Commission on Government Oversight and Efficiency. A graduate of Harvard University and Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, he received his law degree from the  University of California Berkeley School of Law while working full-time as a staff writer for The Recorder, San Francisco. After graduation, he joined the U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division, Organized Crime & Racketeering Section, Washington D.C., through the Honors Program, and was later appointed as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Central District of California. He served as Attorney General Janet Reno’s Special Assistant for the Congressional hearing into the siege of the Branch Davidian Compound in Waco, Texas. After being Of Counsel at O’Melveny & Myers, he was appointed Chief of Staff for newly elected California Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante. He wrote for David E. Kelley’s series The Practice and Boston Legal, for which he received a Peabody Award and two Humanitas Awards. Shapiro also created, wrote, and was the show-runner for three of his own short-lived series, and wrote for the critically acclaimed NBC show Life, as well as NBC’s The Firm. Shapiro also taught as an adjunct law professor at the USC School of Law, and handled political asylum cases pro bono. He is the founding Director of the Public Counsel Emergency Fund for Torture Victims. He won an Emmy at the 2014 National Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter’s Emmy Awards for his first short film, Fair and Free, based on his own script and narrated by Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Shapiro is married to television writer Betsy Borns (Friends, Roseanne, All of Us). They have three children. Jonathan currently resides in Los Angeles, California.