Beyond Right and Wrong: The Power of Effective Decision Making for Attorneys and Clients guides attorneys and clients through legal decision making. It analyzes 11,000 attorney-client decisions in actual cases and summarizes decades of research regarding judge, jury, litigant and attorney decision making. To explain why many litigation outcomes are suboptimal, the book describes the psychological and institutional factors that impede sound decision making. The roles of attorneys and clients in legal decision making and the legal malpractice and disciplinary consequences of ineffective legal representation also are discussed. To rapidly promote better financial outcomes in civil litigation and to assist attorneys and clients in becoming expert decision makers, the book presents more than 65 ideas, methods and systems for improving personal and group decision making.

Reviews of this new book state:

"Everyone associated with litigation -- lawyers, business executives, law professors -- should read this book. ... It has immediate, practical value. ... This book now constitutes a great leap forward."
-- Michael Palmer, Amazon Review, February 13, 2010

"[T]his tome should be near at hand in the office of every lawyer engaged in predicting litigation outcomes. ... Anyone with sufficient interest in this subject, particularly attorneys, should buy the book and keep it, if not on their night-stands, at least on their desks."
-- Victoria Pynchon, Negotiation Law Blog, February 20, 2010

"Now the lead author of that study -- a consultant and former litigator -- has written a book aimed at lawyers and law students to help them see the problem of bad decision making and learn ways to improve it. ... So the book is a practical, how-to work backed by scholarship (but not weighed down by it). It should be of interest for professional responsibility as well as trial practice and alternative dispute resolution."
-- Gallagher Blogs [Gallagher Law Library, University of Washington School of Law], June 23, 2010

"As part of the learning process, I highly recommend you obtain and read: R. Kiser, "Beyond Right and Wrong: The Power of Effective Decision Making for Attorneys, and Clients," Springer Science+Business Media, www.springer.com (2010)"
-- Guy O. Kornblum, The Resolution Advocate, August 23, 2010