- Paul Batista
Paul Batista, a novelist, television personality, and poet, is also one of the most widely known trial lawyers in the United States. He is a 1970 graduate of
Bowdoin College , where he was elected toPhi Beta Kappa , and a 1974 graduate of Cornell Law School.Batista is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Death's Witness, published in 2006. His other books include Civil RICO (Wolters Kluwer/Aspen), a treatise, the first edition of which was published in 1987. Civil RICO is now in its third edition.
Since 1991, Batista has been a regular Guest Commentator on legal and other subjects on Court TV and CNN, among other national newtworks.
Batista's articles have appeared in The
New York Times ,The Wall Street Journal , and The National Law Journal, among others.Batista is also a widely published poet whose work has appeared in literary magazines such as The Atlanta Review, Poetry International, Press, and Pegasus.
Batista, whose son Aaron is a professor at the University of Pittsburgh and whose daughter attends a private school in New England, lives in New York City and Sag Harbor, New York. Batista is a veteran of the United States Army.
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*Death's Witness (Sourcebooks Landmark 2007);
*Civil RICO Practice Manual (Wolters/Kluwer; Aspen; John Wiley & Sons 1997)
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