What is your best advice to a young attorney who wants to become a trial lawyer?
The art of being a trial lawyer has slowly been lost. Forty years ago, there were many excellent and well-experienced trial lawyers who were trying cases regularly. Nowadays, unless someone works for a public defender’s office or a district attorney’s office, most lawyers do not have the opportunity, with rare exception, to gain the broad experience that helps to be a trial lawyer. That is a tragedy, but the practice of law has changed.
