Adam Maxwell on Why Employment Law Is About to Explode

Quotes:

1. “The business of law in a law firm environment for associates and for partners is in developing a book of business. So it's developing your own clients and there's a variety of advantages to that. You can sort of control what matters you work on, and what the demands of your practice are."
2. “In my view, the moment that a judge or a jury thinks that a witness is just reciting lines, they have lost credibility and credibility wins cases and loses cases. So the strategy that I use is to focus less on memorizing answers and more on understanding the themes. What you need to know is your story.”
3. “It's important to be able to be selective about your cases, and that changes in the trajectory of your career, right? When you first start trying to build a book of business, you're eager to take whatever, and solve whatever problems. But in my experience, most of the time, those cases where you're reluctant to take them at the beginning are the cases that are the biggest problems."
4. "It's not about being perfect, it's about being credible. And what they will not forgive is a lie, and they will not forgive being deceptive."
5. "A lot of what I do and what lawyers do is they separate the emotion from the facts and from logic. And so, you know, a lot of it is disassociating emotions, and giving advice that is not based on emotions."