Gerry Spence’s Blog

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This is the personal blog of famed trial lawyer Gerry Spence. The blog promises to provide insights into his more than 55 years of practice.

He writes in his inaugural post: "My greatest fear is that I will die before my life’s work is complete. That unfinished business includes joining you in this Internet world and sharing with you what I have learned. I hope you will hear my timid knocking at your door and let me in."

Author: Gerry Spence is a renowned trial lawyer, best-selling author, Trial Lawyers College founder, advocate, photographer and noted poet.

Blawg Related Categories: Careers • Civil Rights • Criminal Justice • Tort Law • Trials & Litigation

Recent Posts from Gerry Spence’s Blog


  • The wild pig story

    Someone wrote me the following: A chemistry professor in a large college had some exchange students in the class. One day, while the class was in the lab, the Professor noticed one student who kept…

  • Housing for the dead

    I am drawn to cemeteries, not because of some ghoulish, even sentimental reason, but because I want to reinforce my already steadfast and final decision that I do not want to be buried in one…

  • Argus Joseph Thompson, Insane, on Love

    In the fall in Jackson Hole the frost swipes the leaves from the trees like a mad painter stripping wet paint from his canvas.  But this fall the frost had touched only lightly, and the…

  • Argus Joseph Thompson, Insane, on the Environment

    Since in these days we have become more interested in the environment I thought it helpful to quote Argus Joseph Thomspon, Insane, on some of his scattered and irrelevant thoughts on the subject.  He begins…

  • How Argus Joseph Thompson, insane, became a lawyer

    As you may remember, Argus Joseph Thomson is a poor lawyer specializing in Poor Law for the poor. Here he tells us how he was driven to become a lawyer. His childhood friend, Doc Blomister,…

  • Argus tell us: How the FBI solves its cases

    Argus tells us: How the FBI solves its cases Now let’s try to be serious just once.  Here is what Argus told me about his exposure to FBI deal-making methods as taught at the U.…

  • Depression and Mother Nature’s dirty little joke

    I recognize that depression can be the result of an insidious chemical imbalance. I am not writing about that miserable ghoul that tries to find a home in many an otherwise healthy person. We all…

  • Dear Friends

    I am honored that I sometimes get comments that are pages and pages long.  I just can’t absorb these, nor, probably, can most of you. I am sorry to delete some of these, but I…

  • Poem: First Snow

    I have been gone. The first snow has come. I share a poem I wrote many years ago to Imaging: First Snow Together we watched the snow cover the ground In ten minutes. “Before it’s…

  • An argument for slavery

    I am grateful to some of my readers who have inquired concerning my health, this in view of the fact that I have not posted for several weeks.  Imaging and I have just returned from…