I know it is not fashionable to speak this way, but I must confess, I love the law of evidence. Applying the law of evidence is what separates lawyers from the citizenry; it is our currency in the courtroom. The law of evidence is a friend of the trial lawyer and it gives judges the opportunity to be fair. It also provides trial lawyers with a game plan on how to be persuasive in ways that often have little to do with winning or losing the objection and everything to do with reminding the jurors why they are in court and entitled to the verdict. Two commentators, both former judges and trial lawyers and current evidence teachers—one of whom is an author in this Symposium—put it well: The Rules bring real life, with its strengths and weaknesses, into a courtroom, to be presented, in most cases, to an untrained audience. The audience will create its own version of the story of the case, reflecting each member’s life experiences and intelligence.