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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 3190871" data-attributes="member: 19675">Hey...I've been polishing my horns down on a weekly basis!(For the record, one of my best friends is the son of the scariest and most powerful lawyers in Texas...he calls him Darth Vader.)I understand the aversion to public speaking- it used to terrify me!Up until law school, all of my public speaking opportunities had been disasters (and progressivly worse, too), and amazingly enough, the school I went to didn't do much mandatory education in that area.(Side note: my school, UT, emphasizes theory and analysis...up the road at Baylor, they train some of the best trial lawyers around.  Its a matter of the different strengths of the schools.)In fact, I didn't learn about high-quality public speaking until I got my MBA at UD.  Nearly every class- even Statistics and Financial Accounting, required some kind of presentation.  And it wasn't just sink or swim...they actively instructed me on some of the finer points.I'm not saying I'm a Tony Roberts or a Billy Graham, but I can at least hold my own.(Please ignore the double entendre...<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />)</blockquote>