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The New Lawyer Supplement

May 19, 2012

A guide for the next generation of trial lawyers

Anyone can be a trial lawyer; jurors will never know (or care) about your background. By John Worden Schiff Hardin LLP


By John Worden

There is a need for trial lawyers today like no other, and the future will require great trial lawyers even more than the present as fewer and fewer lawyers these days are given the opportunity to try cases.


Some decry there being too many lawsuits, but in many ways there are too few lawsuits. Where individuals do not feel that their grievances will be heard fairly by the court system, there can be a tendency to take matters in...

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