Law and we are delighted today, to have jim zarin here at the law school to celebrate his book. Plaintiff and chiefs. And we will have the format of our team anthony carl who will ask questions of jim. I would like to just introduce jim. He is fundamentally a trial lawyer. His book flames and chiefs, is he trial lawyer news book. Theres an Opening Statement that theres evidence by category and relevance a sneak closing argument. Jim has always been a superb trial lawyer. We met first in 1968, would we both will criminal prosecutors at the Southern District. Jim about my age arrived about 18 months earlier and he by the time, was already a start litigator and prosecutor. In those days, the prosecutor news office in the Southern District was small about 50 lawyers in the Criminal Division. We wash each other and we learn from each other. And jim was my mentor. He took me out of my first trial. Prosecution of young men letters from a mailbox five of them. I think he was a guilty verdict.
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[applause] i guess they were all guilty. [laughter] thank you so much for the lovely introduction and for sharing the wonderful history of your friendship and his mentorship. Both of you have played a large role in the event of the history for over five decades and the law schools are incredibly fortunate to have you both in leadership and all of you are wonderful as leaders and as institutional leaders. I want to thank everyone for joining this to discuss the an exciting and extremely timely book and a portrait of donald trump and 3500 lawsuits. His other two books both of which are highly relevant to other books as well are cases that mattered and americans greatest trial court and supremely partisan here and how in Supreme Court. This is the fifth time you get to sit with you to talk about your wonderful work. So its meaningful and noise fun to have a conversation with you. You are someone who as i described an extraordinary contour. You have been a wonderful friend who is given so
Tonights program is a history of americas exceptional idea is part of our Eileen George speaker series. Its great generosity has allowed us to bring so many great speakers to the states i want to thank our chairman councilmembers who were in attendance this evening and thank you for your great support which enables us to do our work. Tonights program will last about one hour and it will include a questionandanswer sessionti. You should have received a note card and pencil as you enter the auditorium this afternoon this evening and if not my colleagues are going up and down the aisle with no cards. Following the program there will be a book signing and are storing s copies of the book wil be available for purchase. Tonight we are thrilled to welcome Richard Brookhiser back to the New York Historical society produces senior fellow at the National Review institute a Senior Editor at the National Review and an author of numerous books including Jon Marshalls the man who made the Supreme Co
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