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SOME BASIC RULES FOR A SUCCESSFUL TRIAL LAWYER LAW PRACTICE

SOME BASIC RULES FOR A SUCCESSFUL TRIAL LAWYER LAW PRACTICE

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I began practicing law sixty-five years ago in Mount Vernon, Washington, with a population of 7,900 people. There were 3400 lawyers in the entire state. Today Washington has over 40,000 attorneys. In 1959 the Washington State Bar Association had one executive in charge, Alice O’Leary Ralls. The practice of law was considerably simpler and less complicated than it is today. There was no lawyer advertising and the lawyer -client relationship was not the same as it commonly is today. However,…

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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

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.          . . 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

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. 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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