Scalia takes to stage to tell lawyers how to win

It's a pretty good crowd for a summer Friday morning at Kennedy Center. From stage right (where else?) Justice Antonin Scalia enters. He walks over to a stool and takes his seat with a music stand before him, a bottle of water nearby. Scalia, unplugged? No, there's no acoustic guitar at the ready. Instead, the conservative justice and his book-writing sidekick, Bryan Garner, are to deliver 4 1/2 hours of advice about how to make your case to judges. "Lawyers generally are lousy writers," he says at one point, almost spitting out the words. Before him sit nearly 1,000 lawyers and law students, many of whom paid $600 for their seats. They don't mind his comment; they've heard that one before. In fact they've heard a lot of this before — or perhaps read it in the book Scalia and Garner wrote, "Making Your Case, The Art of... [read full story]