” I learned how to practice law by depending on older lawyers. The first thing I did when I went to town was call on other lawyers and that I told them that I wanted to practice law. I didn’t want any of their...
Read MoreI’ve enjoyed being a lawyer. I’m sorry that there are so many bad jokes about lawyers that are current these days. I don’t think we deserve that. If we have some bad apples in the barrel, we ought to get them...
Read MoreIf you think that your being aggressive in an attack dog mode is going to help your client, you’re dead wrong. Another change is a tendency to over-lawyer a case. I can remember [Squire] Ogden saying our clients...
Read MoreI don’t think there’s any question that professionalism is down from what it was in my younger days. Some of this hostility exists because of the pressure of more lawyers trying to get more business. I never address...
Read MoreBeing the defense lawyer, I’m still very sympathetic with plaintiff’s lawyers, not try very hard to see the value of the case and try very hard to be sure that the insurance company recognizes that value. The more...
Read MoreI’d rather have a younger jury, and that’s something that most people who defend don’t want. But I feel that they are willing to sit and think through the complicated issues more than older people who have...
Read MoreThe public perception of lawyers has greatly diminished in quality. It would be interesting if someone could do a study to see what the difference in lawyers then and now is. I think for the most part, they’re probably...
Read More“I think the best thing for a young lawyer to do today would be be associate himself with some person he highly respects as a member of the Bar and learn from that person. I think that’s the best way to get adjusted...
Read MoreWe had a lawyer named H.K. Spear who was sort of a character, and one day the judge said ‘General’ (they called him General because he’d been with the Kentucky Attorney General’s Office). ‘Will you...
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