Perspective
Feb. 3, 2011
Want to Be a Trial Lawyer?
Clarence Darrow once said that the only real lawyer is a trial lawyer. How this changed one litigator's career. By Vance A. Woodward.
"The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries."- Clarence Darrow
Are you a litigator who has never been to trial? I was. Do you want to go to trial? I did.
It was in 2008, during my seventh year of practice as a litigator, when I realized there was a difference between being a litigator and being a trial lawyer. (I am either slow or skilled at self-deception, I have n...
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