| The Author John Thomason served as assistant staff judge advocate, VIIth U.S. Army Corps in Germany, 1953 – 1955, where he participated in 168 general court-martial trials, when the Cold War was almost a hot war. This book recounts his experiences as an Army lawyer in a combat ready unit. It is also the sometimes-humorous account of the transformation of a twenty-two year old law school graduate with no military training to a competent military officer and trial lawyer. Following military service, Thomason was a public defender in the criminal courts of Memphis, Tennessee, then a trial lawyer in civil cases, frequently defending physicians accused of medical malpractice and representing corporations in commercial litigation. In 1967 he founded a law firm, and in 2002, after fifty years at the bar, retired from the practice of law. By then his firm had grown to thirty-five lawyers. Selected for the American College of Trial Lawyers, International Association of Defense Counsel, and named in Best Lawyers in America, Thomason tried hundreds of jury trials in state and federal jurisdictions and, for a time was visiting professor of Advocacy at the University of Tennessee College of Law in Knoxville. At its annual meeting in 2002 the Memphis Bar Association presented Thomason with the highest honor it bestows on one of its members, "The Lawyer's Lawyer Award."
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