![]() ![]() You learn to weave the disparate facts of a case into a coherent narrative interesting enough to command the attention of a judge, probably the world's most jaded reader. "But the skills of a trial lawyer are the skills of a storyteller. "Obviously not every lawyer has a knack for writing fiction or we'd have no lawyers left," quipped Patterson, who has happily given up his lucrative law practice with the San Francisco firm McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen to write full time at home in upscale Pacific Heights. The former San Francisco attorney says - with little irony - that it is one of the best places to practice the art of fine fiction. ![]() Of all the settings in which we have come to expect a good mystery - the great English country house, the luxury train, the scientific laboratory - there is none more popular than the courtroom.īut to Richard North Patterson, who since the publication of his 1993 bestseller "Degree of Guilt" has become known as one of the genre's finest practitioners, a court of law is more than a literary device. ![]()
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