After considerable scouring of musty and dusty files in courtroom
storage cellars, the research project in Springfield, Illinois
discovered more than 70,000 documents directly linked to Abraham
Lincoln's twenty-four years as a practicing lawyer. Having access
to that wealth of information, A. Lincoln Esquire: A Shrewd,
Sophisticated Litigator presents unique insight into Lincoln's
legal career in a distinctive book that presents detailed stories
about Lincoln's cases using actual trial document, uses Lincoln's
cases to examine the social and political climate of the time,
shows how relationships between Lincoln and his clients changed
over time, and is the first book to use the newly discovered
Lincoln Legal Papers primary source data.
In contrast to the mythical image of Lincoln as a country
lawyer, he was actually among the top leaders of the Illinois bar.
This book details more than fifty of Lincoln's legal cases and
activities such as assault and battery, bestiality, a wrongful
dismissal, medical malpractice uncollected debts, the insanity plea
in a murder case, divorce, the selection of expert witnesses,
patent infringement, sexual slander, personal damages, corporate
clients, and the first use of the temporary insanity plea in a US
courtroom, and set the precedent for using expert witnesses.
Lincoln even defended an Illinois Supreme Court justice against an
impeachment charge.
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