Zach Phelps, a third year student at
Albany Law School, is a proud graduate of Homer Central High School and the
College of Saint Rose, and an officer in the United States Marine Corps. This essay was written as one of the assigned memos for
the Judicial Process seminar, Fall 2011 semester.
In a thrilling expose on the judicial system in the United States, Jerome Frank explores many of the major issues that surround the United States judicial process, pulling no punches and refusing to allow his voice on the matter to be muffled in his stimulating book, Courts on Trial.[1]
The beginning of his book delves into the problems that lawyers face with facts. Jerome Frank preaches about the importance of facts in the litigation process, and how hard it is to be a lawyer. Most of his musings come off as mere ramblings of a lazy and unmotivated lawyer. As he professes later in his book, the lawyer has to take what the situation gives him and do his best to represent his client and, if the system is as broken and against him as he seems to think, go forth and fix the problem.
