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WHAT THEY DON’T TEACH YOU IN LAW SCHOOL YOU NEED TO KNOW

WHAT THEY DON’T TEACH YOU IN LAW SCHOOL YOU NEED TO KNOW

.          . . One September morning in 1959 Skagit County’s only two superior court judges, Charles Stafford and Arthur Ward, administered my taking the oath to become a brand new lawyer. Also taking the oath was  David Welts. There weren’t more than thirty-five lawyers in the county and less than 3,000 in the whole state. The practice of law wasn’t very complicated at that time. The state statutes fit in two binders compared with the volumes of law today….

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ADVICE FOR NEW LAWYERS THEY DON’T TEACH IN LAW SCHOOL

ADVICE FOR NEW LAWYERS THEY DON’T TEACH IN LAW SCHOOL

. You are probably thinking to yourself “not more advice from some older lawyer who assumes that they know something younger lawyers don’t know?” You may be right, but my interaction with new and inexperienced lawyers is that they are prone to making mistakes in their professional work and relationships with others that are correctable. Hopefully, these are some ideas that might be of benefit and even, possibly, to experienced lawyers. . . Let’s start with a brief outline of…

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DEVELOP THE RIGHT ATTITUDE FOR A PLAINTIFF ATTORNEY

DEVELOP THE RIGHT ATTITUDE FOR A PLAINTIFF ATTORNEY

Working with other lawyers and teaching them often shows they have the wrong attitude to be a great plaintiff lawyer. What attitude should they have? I think the most basic attitudes involve these concepts to start with. The first rule of a plaintiff’s practice is to screen the case initially to make certain you are willing to try the case without assuming it will somehow settle without trial so you can earn a fee. The second rule is to prepare every case from…

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