A Trial Lawyer’s Guide to Preserving the U.S. Justice System ft. Eric Weitz

Quotes:

1. “Look, whether I’m on trial and something happens where an opportunity or you see something in your daily practice, I call them gifts. It’s the way I choose to label them because I really view them that way. It’s not, “how did I not know it?”
2. “Authenticity is the single most potent weapon that anybody has. Jurors are really good at sniffing out nonsense, and if you’re trying to sell something and you’re not being genuine as a person, it doesn’t matter what you say. It doesn’t matter how right you are.” 
3. “Two things strike me right off the bat… I used to be convinced when I was younger that to be a trial lawyer you had to have that it factor… until I spent enough time in a courtroom to see all sorts of different styles. The drama we see today in the media is so exaggerated and so overblown. And I have just found that that doesn’t translate well into a courtroom until the client or the lawyer have earned it.” 
4. “What are you going to law school for? You’re going to learn how to think, you’re hoping to pick up some substance to help you on the bar exam, period. Law schools very much care about their bar passage rate and since the bar is the threshold now, that’s why I think our education is so limited.”
5. “We are probably facing the single greatest attack on the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary that we have ever seen. Our federal legislature has kind of abdicated their power to the executive branch. The courts are all that’s left. The threats on their family, the threats on their lives, the attacks in the press, we forget judges are human beings too.”