Aug. 2, 2002

What to Do When You Don't Know It All

Dicta Column - By The Rodent - A very big part of lawyering is responding to questions to which you don't know the answer. In this way, practicing law is a lot like law school when you are sitting in class and a professor calls on you to answer a question about materials you haven't read and a case you haven't briefed. When you are out there practicing, however, you can't get away with saying "pass" or "unprepared" like you can when you're a student. You have to come up with something.