The Art of Oratory in Jurisprudence;" The Articulate Attorney at Law”

Lawyers often speak before adjudicators, city councils, and planning commissions, and give talks to civic groups, business executives, or company employees. They even give  media interviews on behalf of clients. For certain individuals, it falls into place without  any issues. It’s a piece of their characters. In any case, for the individuals who aren’t  sure or have stage dread, they can generally work on their speaking and oratory skills. It's progressively essential to be a viable open speaker if you mean to be a litigator.  Judges  and juries will anticipate it. 

Individuals believe that since you’re a legal counsellor, you’re
consequently a dauntless and splendid open speaker. We legal advisors all realize this
isn’t in every case valid. 

This Book examines representations of courtroom oratory, delivery, and the speaker’s body in medieval rhetorical theory and current practice. It contests the view that medieval theorists paid little attention to judicial oratory and that they largely ignored delivery. After looking at rhetorical treatises, procedural manuals, guides to legal deportment, satiric portraits of the lawyerasrobedvulture (etc.), the Book turns to the work of four rhetorical theorists who rewrite (and upend) ancient rhetorical theory: Alcuin of York, Boncompagno da Signa, Guilhem Molinier, and Jean de Jandun. Each offers an animated account of embodied legal expression, a richly detailed evocation of the medieval courtroom, and a distinctive theory of the pleader’s body.

In their work, law appears not as a set of rules or the sovereign’s fiat but as visceral, intimate bodily experience. Here, the body may appear as a divine instrument. Or, alternatively, it may appear as a material thing with a life of its own: indecorous, prone to accident, hopelessly leaky, sublimely obscene.