Stanley Rosenblatt seems to be proud of his courtroom peformances. His latest, in the Florida smoker's class action trial, resulted in a jury award of almost $145 billion, which will be appealed for years and then eventually thrown out. His closing argument in that case was almost identical to the one in the case he writes about in his book. His general message to juries is along the following lines: Ignore the law. The law used to be that water fountains in this very courthouse could be labeled "for whites only". So, since that was a bad law, you can just ignore all laws, especially the ones that apply to this case. They're too complicated anyway. Instead, just do what feels good. Send a Message. Be on the Today show and have a record breaking verdict to show for the two years you've been sitting here listening to all that boring evidence. Be a powerful person for a day.

How does he get away with this? An interesting question. But to me, an even more interesting question is: why does he brag about it?