Make Your Case: Finding Your Win in Civil Court

"Tanya Acker lays out a common sense approach to deciding when to go—or not to go—to court. Make Your Case is
straightforward and an invaluable resource from someone with the legal insight to tell it like it is."

Tanya Acker, co-star of the nationally syndicated and Emmy-nominated show Hot Bench, demystifies civil litigation—from
common lawsuits to new cases emanating from Covid-19 and looting (tenant vs. landlord rent disputes, small business damage,
and more)—and lays out an expert's guide to legal proceedings inside the courtroom and out, giving readers professional
insider information they need to find THEIR WIN in a lawsuit.

Millions of people end up in civil court each year. They assume going to court is the next logical step in their fight, but they
often have little idea about how the court system works or what they can reasonably expect of it. They make poorly informed
judgments about whether court is the best option for solving a problem, what kind of solutions it can provide, and why it
proceeds in the (sometimes) counterintuitive way it does.

They think “winning” is only about the judgment or verdict rendered by judge or jury. Those “wins” are great—but if you don’t
know what the process can exact from you or why it works as it does, that blind procession to victory can end up costing you
your real win.

In Make Your Case, Tanya Acker cuts straight to the essentials, providing curated, targeted information based on her extensive
experience regarding exactly what people want to know: what happens during court proceedings and why, and how to best
prepare for it—or how to avoid court entirely and find a better way.

Be smart. Be ready. Make your case.

Tanya Acker received her B.A. at Howard University and graduated from Yale Law School in 1995. Straddling legal work in government and private practice, Acker has worked at the Office of the White House Counsel, the Civil Rights Division in the US Department of Justice, and also for some of the nation’s top tier private law firms. She served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Dorothy Wright Nelson on the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals and has also maintained a commitment to pro bono work, receiving the ACLU’s First Amendment Award for championing the homeless. You can catch her every day on the Emmy-nominated CBS show Hot Bench. She lives with her husband and her dog, Max, in Los Angeles, California.