For those who are not basketball fans, the name Stephen Curry may not be someone you’ve heard about. Curry is a member of the Golden State Warriors professional basketball team. He is in another record setting season for points scored in a game. At age 28 he is averaging 30.5 points a game and 6.4 assists while shooting an average of 51% from the field and 46% from the three point range. To qualify for a three point shot in…
I know I’ve written about this before and that all of you agree, but the more I observe people in general and young lawyers in particular I think they are trying achieve success in the wrong way. Great trial lawyers become great not by learning skills and techniques, but by first learning about themselves and the changes of attitudes they need to make for greatness. Certainly, the first lesson is we have to be true ourselves. As Shakespeare wrote in…
When is the last time you have given real thought to the real purpose behind our advocacy for our plaintiff clients? I don’t remember what the case was about or what the outcome, but I remember how I felt after my first trial. I thought: “Wow. I’d pay someone to let me do this and to think they pay me!” I was so proud anyone would trust me with their problems and wanted to do my best job for them….