I’m leaving on Sunday for Wyoming where, each year since it’s founding, I have participated as a speaker and helper. Gerry Spence and I have been friends for almost thirty years and of all his accomplishments this College is one of the best. Even though I go there as some kind of expert, I always leave more humble then when I arrived with the realization I have benefited far more by my being there then the students did from me….
This may not be of much benefit to you, but I thought I’d share a practical example of my views involving a trial. My partner, who is an excellent lawyer, is involved in a medical malpractice case where his elderly client experienced symptoms of complications the night of her surgery. The nurse didn’t call the doctor or take action and she suffered partial paralysis. The doctor was upset about it, reported it to administration and complained to the nurse. The…
It is very easy to become discouraged during a trial by something that goes wrong. But, it is important to remember that each witness, each event and each day is no more than a series of battles and not the war itself. If you let one thing that went wrong demoralize you, you are beaten. Maintaining confidence while seeing the problem is essential to winning cases, because no case goes in perfectly or exactly as you wanted it to be…