C. Evan Stewart practiced law for more than 47 years, most of it in securities and financial services litigation, and retired from Cohen & Gresser in 2025. He tried major cases in private practice without ever working as a federal prosecutor, which is rare on Wall Street. He taught for three decades at Fordham, Cornell, and Brooklyn Law School, has written roughly 300 articles, and has written for the New York Law Journal since 1990. His books include

The Worst Supreme Court Decisions Ever and William Henry Seward's Quest to Save the Nation During the Secession Winter.

Evan and Alexander start with how the practice has changed: e-discovery, lateral moves and compensation, and the mentorship that COVID interrupted. Then they get to trial work. Evan explains why he thinks direct examination is harder than cross, and why he tells a witness to be the same person on cross that they were on direct. A jury notices when they aren't. The last stretch is history. Evan's new book argues the Civil War was not inevitable. He points to Lincoln's decision to resupply Fort Sumter, over Seward's objection, as the choice that set the war in motion, and he is skeptical that any of it had to happen the way it did.

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