Editor’s note: This is the third in a three-part series.

Like many lawyers, I love trying cases. Trials are the most celebrated aspect of litigation. In the popular (or at least the legal) imagination, they evoke the Roman arena, with trial lawyers as gladiators, the jury as the enthralled spectators, and the judge as Caesar, signaling thumbs up or thumbs down. Big trials draw media coverage. Legal newspapers keep score. For the lawyers involved, trials are intense, challenging and fun.