This volume arose from a Celtic Conference in Classics panel on forensic narratives. The panel, co-organized by the present volume’s editors, was held in June 2016 at Dublin. The quality of the papers read at the event, and the collegial and stimulating discussion among the panel’s members urged us to ask speakers to revise their papers and submit them for publication. In spite of the fact that narratives have attracted due scholarly attention by scholars who work on fictional literary genres, forensic narratives remain an under-researched topic. Legal theorists and viewers of popular courtroom dramas know that stories play an integral role in courtroom practice. Forensic stories are characterized by several idiosyncratic qualities. For example, the competing versions of the legally significant events that forensic stories offer typically anticipate their final meaning from the very outset of the speech. But still, the ways in which speakers manipulate their narrative material attract our full attention because they allow us to look into real peoples’ lives. Forensic stories, thus, no doubt highly fabricated versions of the events which gave rise to individual legal disputes, engage us in ways which are both similar and dissimilar to the ways in which other literary narratives engage us.