97% of federal criminal defendants face sentencing and 80% receive a prison term, so where they do their time is almost as important as the length of their sentence.  Yet many attorneys neglect their opportunities to influence prison designation.

     Federal Prison Guidebook will help you place your clients at the best possible facility with release at the earliest opportunity.  This unique resource provides:

• Prison directory.  Detailed profiles of 105 federal institutions, including health, fitness/recreation, religious, and library services available.  Also: telephone policy, commissary hours, inmate mail address, visiting hours, and local accommodations.

• Institution-specific programming.  Educational, vocational/apprenticeship, UNICOR, and counseling/rehab opportunities are detailed for each prison.

• Placement guidance.  Understanding the placement process, common errors, computing the security score, ensuring an accurate presentence investigation report, supporting judicial recommendations, and tips for securing a favorable placement.

• How to do time.  Practical do’s and don’ts for your prison-bound clients from former Bureau of Prisons officials.

• Practice tips.  Credit for prior custody, maximizing the benefits of cooperation, seeking a variance below the guideline sentence, the Residential Drug Abuse Program, and much more.

by Kevin J. Mahoney

Compelling openings, passionate closings, and believable defense witnesses are rarely enough to win a criminal trial.  The process is too slanted in favor of the prosecution.

     The best way to cripple the government’s case is with effective cross-examination.

     It is thorough, incisive cross-examination that exposes the shoddy and predetermined nature of a police investigation, the expert’s reliance on flawed and vulnerable forensic techniques, and the witness’ lack of candor. 

     For the criminal defense lawyer, there is no more important task than mastering successful cross-examination techniques.  Kevin Mahoney’s Relentless Criminal Cross-Examination will help.  It is filled with practical strategies, angles of attack, pattern Q&A, and tips for successful questioning and other essential elements of criminal defense advocacy.  You receive 450 pages of strategies, arguments, examples, tips, and more for questioning arresting officers, detectives, toxicologists, eyewitnesses, informants, and accomplices.

by Tod F. Schleier

This big, new book gives you the cross and direct-examination questions, arguments, and strategies that have enabled author Tod Schleier to win multiple million-dollar verdicts in his nearly 30 years of representing employees. Mr. Schleier also details the most effective defenses used against him by the management bar. You receive:

• Case selection tips, with plaintiff and case evaluation checklists and an effective method for testing the plaintiff's work habits

• Courtroom-proven case themes and arguments, with common defenses that should be anticipated

• Pattern deposition questions for all major types of employment witnesses

• Detailed and well-supported discussions of law supporting and opposing admissibility of key testimony

• Direct and cross-examination checklists specific to witness and cause of action

• Extensive model Q&A of effective direct and cross examinations, with technique tips

• Summary checklists of key topics to cover in depositions and examinations

Includes deposition and examination questions for experts

You receive tools and advice for preparing, examining, and cross-examining the following expert witnesses:

• Economists

• Human resource experts

• Mental health experts

• Statisticians

• Vocational experts