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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 8765059" data-attributes="member: 19675">Yeah, however…The assessment still stands, of course- he very likely a Ringwraith.  But there’s a difference between the majority of great lawyers and the ones who absolutely will ruin your day in court.  Those lawyers seem to enjoy wrecking their opponents.And you won’t know who they are until you see how those who know them react.The ones in the first category?  Other lawyers see going up against them as a challenge.  Like the saying goes, “To be the best, you have to beat the best.”  Opposing them is a rare but often welcome challenge.  A test of your mettle.The scary ones make things extremely unpleasant.  They don’t just want to win, they want to do muscle-car burnouts on your guts.The Guy I mentioned knowing?  The person who handed him his first defeat likened it to being an infantryman asked to solo a main battle tank.*  He had gotten the case because the firm took the case…and then everyone else in the firm was suddenly “too busy.”  They hung him out to dry.  It made his career, but he recalled it being his most difficult trial EVER.* a characterization that several other attorneys in the room nodded their heads in agreement to.</blockquote>