The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York is the most influential District court in the United States. James Zirin discusses its history and gives first-hand insight into the evolution of our justice system. His book The Mother Court: Tales of Cases that Mattered in America's Greatest Trial Court provides an anatomy of what a trial is all about in an American courtroom, featuring the most famous trials of the period in the greatest court in the nation.

Mother Court by James Zirin

(American Bar Association/Courtesy of the publisher)