Introduction / Harold R. Medina -- Foreword -- pt. I. The trial. A new case arrives ; In court at last ; The opening address ; Cross-examination -- a bulwark of liberty ; Cross-examination -- an incomparable art ; The closing speech -- pt. II. Advocacy is indeed an art. Present low estate of advocacy ; A great advocate ; Some portraits of great lawyers -- pt. III. Good advocacy -- a crying need. Advocacy and the criminal law ; Advocacy in the appellate courts ; Appellate advocacy -- the precepts of a master craftsman ; Barristers and solicitors -- a plea for a divided bar ; The ethics of advocacy -- Publisher's note about Lloyd Paul Stryker -- "Knight with a rueful countenance" -- a profile / by Alexander Woollcott.