No one dreams of needing a trial lawyer. No one wakes up thinking an injury will change life forever, just like we do not expect to bury a child, because of someone else’s neglect. Odds are, if we meet, I am very sorry we had to. I wish we never had to meet. Most all of my battles representing injured families...
The art of arguing is like the art of breathing. We are constructing, critiquing, and making arguments all the time. We often think of argument as a conscious choice, but the winning argument usually occurs long before the fighter enters the ring. We argue because we must, because life demands it, because, at core, the arguments we believe can...
The first time I stood in front of a jury, in a large superior courtroom in Spokane County, I was a younger lawyer with more energy than eloquence, more ambition than experience. I'll never forget the feeling as if my legs might give out and collapse as easily as the accordion files in my briefcase. My mouth...
An American businessman, on vacation in a small Mexican coastal village, observed a fisherman returning from the sea with a small boat filled with large yellowfin tuna. The businessman complimented the fisherman on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them. "Only a couple of hours," the fisherman replied. "Why didn’t you stay out longer...
One day, an old man was walking along a beach where thousands of starfish had been washed ashore by a storm. Off in the distance, he noticed a small boy approaching. As the boy walked, he paused every so often, and as he drew closer, the old man could see that the boy was carefully picking up starfish and...
