What every aspiring lawyer should know: Learn to be a trial lawyer
Attorney Steve Gursten gives advice to law students on lawcrossing.com
Steven Gursten, head of Michigan Auto Law, provided a guest column for the legal publication lawcrossing.com with advice for law school students. Gursten discussed how he developed his trial skills as an auto accident attorney with record-breaking verdicts and settlements:
“Like all new lawyers, I knew nothing at the time about trial. So to develop my own trial skills, I started by asking the other lawyers in my law firm to give me their worst cases for trial. I wanted the cases no one else wanted – the “stinkers.” Taking these cases to trial was a win-win. I wanted trial experience – and fast. I wanted the cases everyone expected I would lose because if (and when) I did lose, everyone was expecting it anyways. But when I won, I was a hero… Soon after I started my aggressive campaign looking for trial experience, I recovered my first million-dollar verdict.”
You can read the full column here: What Every Aspiring Lawyer Should Know – Learn to Be a Trial Lawyer
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Written By
Steve M. Gursten,
Attorney,
License#: P53632
Steven Gursten, attorney at Michigan Auto Law and one of the most successful auto accident attorneys in Michigan. Michigan Auto Law represents people seriously injured in car, truck, motorcycle, and bus accidents, including catastrophic injury, traumatic brain injury, and No-Fault insurance cases. Steven has recovered the largest reported auto and truck accident settlement of any Michigan lawyer, and has been named Michigan Lawyer of the Year and a Top 50 Michigan Super Lawyer.
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