Tommy Malone, Trial Lawyer:
And the Light Shone Through…The Guiding Hand Shaping One of America’s Greatest Trial Lawyers
Voir Dire and Summation: The Law and the Practice
Voir Dire and Summation: The Law and The Practice is a comprehensive work that educates the reader about all aspects of voir dire and summation. Mr. Malone shares his experience and knowledge for an artfully tried case through the study and analysis of trial techniques he utilized during three different multimillion-dollar cases. The reader will experience the most critical parts of each trial firsthand — from the exacting voir dire examinations to his powerful and compelling closing arguments.
Thomas William Malone, Copyright 2006
Tommy Malone, Trial Lawyer: And the Light Shone Through…The Guiding Hand Shaping One of America’s Greatest Trial Lawyers (2018)
By Vincent Coppola
Read the riveting biography on Malone Law’s own Tommy Malone, available now via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Mercer University Press, Target or Walmart.
Description:
The core question of this book: how a great lawyer who comes to represent important causes, emerges out of the racist, paternalistic, and self-perpetuating establishment of rural Georgia in the 1950s? What about Tommy Malone led him to take on the power structure in his community and begin representing people who were injured against prominent doctors and hospitals? It wasn’t money because there wasn’t any money to be made at that time. There is nothing specific in his background that would cause anyone to predict that he’d become one of the first white lawyers in the Deep South to represent the black community and reach out to a struggling handful of African American attorneys and ease their passage into the mainstream. A kid who grew up in the Jim Crow era in Dougherty County, who went off to college–not an especially progressive young man–came back home after he finished law school and began representing African Americans against the ruling class? It just wasn’t done. Somehow, this same young man went on to become one of the greatest trial lawyers of his generation, representing those who had their lives turned upside down–the catastrophically injured and the families whose loved ones needlessly lost their lives and futures due to the failures of others. The answers are as varied as human experience, but undoubtedly, Malone sensed a “guiding hand” directing him to the good. There was no teacher or mentor to illumine the path forward, just the gradual accretion of experience, knowledge, insight, and pain on a sensitive soul, kindling fierce passion and righteous anger. Viewed through this lens, Tommy Malone becomes a very important figure in the history of the South, and in some respects, the history of the country.
Review by Adam Malone:
From time to time, we all question whether the relentless personal sacrifice demanded by what we do, the incredible loneliness of often being the only one standing between the individual and the abuse of power, of often being the hairshirt to the smugness and complacency of society, and whether what we do, especially if we lose to prejudice or bias, really matters or makes a difference. Well, it does. The answer for why it matters is contained in this book. I hope the life’s work of one human being described in this book inspires you, as it has me all my life, to listen for the Guiding Hand in your life, to find your own calling to serve something greater than our own self interest, and to live a lifetime worthy of it.
