As trial advocates we are tested in many ways while carrying our professional duties for our clients. We fail to stop, at intervals, and reflect on this aspect of our lives. Here are a couple of basic reflections you might find beneficial to consider. Nothing profound, but subjects we may find applicable to our lives. If you do your job well and with courage you will offend some people If we fulfill our role as advocates, no matter how professionally…
Whether we like it or not, adversity is in an inevitable part of our life. Problems are going to happen and the secret is to know how to deal with them when it happenss. Challenges, large and small, the occur continually through our lifetime. Our attitude determines our personal reality in dealing with adversity. We know from our past experience that Nietzsche was right: “that which does not kill you will make you stronger.” We see the benefit of adversity…
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…