As Tony Spencer would be the first to admit, it takes a very special type of person to be a successful trial lawyer. Firstly, it requires that the individual has extremely good communicative skills, be hard-working, detail-orientated, and possessed of a formidably logical and perceptive intellect. Furthermore, any lawyer must obviously be well-versed in the practice and application of the law. This requires keeping abreast of any changes that might occur regarding statutes, amendments, and precedent. Being a successful lawyer has a lot to do with the personality of the individual. As a lawyer you need to be personable, persuasive, and cunning. Clearly, not everyone is cut out to be a trial lawyer.
A trial lawyer essentially means an individual who has tried cases in a court of law. This can be both defending a client either to a jury or to a judge (sometimes referred to as a 'bench trial'). Although there is a tendency to associate trial lawyers with criminal cases, this is largely a perception perpetrated by Hollywood and cheap paperbacks. By far the majority of trials involve business disputes. This could be a a construction company that is in some sort of dispute with another construction company, or the owners of certain projects being in disagreement with the contractors employed to realize those projects. Other common areas of disputation include investors in a certain company who are in dispute woth the people who run the company, eminent domain proceedings, personal injury claims, and child custody.
Naturally, there are certain trial lawyers who only take on criminal cases. These criminal defense lawyers undertake a wide range of criminally related cases from petty theft to embezzlement, murder and rape, to robbery and burglary. Other trial lawyers work for governmental agencies (district attorneys), and as public defenders. Indeed, there are as many trial lawyers as there are types of crime. The list is almost endless. However, as Tony Spencer advises, if you are curious about becoming a trial lawyer, why not go to a courthouse and watch the proceedings? Most trials are available to the general public. You will generally be asked by one of the court officials what you are doing at the court, simply tell them you are interested in how the legal system operates.
Tony Spencer has been in the business of winning cases for his clients for over 30 years. He has won personal injury, family law, criminal, traffic, and business cases. In working on a huge range of cases over this time he has become an expert in areas as diverse as veterinary medicine, toxicology, DNA identification, cell phone triangulation, the science of radar, the workings of breath-test machines, the U.S. taxation of reinsurance proceeds, and the pallet industry. Indeed Tony Spencer is the only trial lawyer in the state of Virginia to have won two seperate murder cases where no body was found. He also successfully won a case involving a complex securities law issue before the New York Stock Exchange Arbitration Panel on behalf of an individual investor going up against the national investment firm of Oppenheimer & Co.
A trial lawyer essentially means an individual who has tried cases in a court of law. This can be both defending a client either to a jury or to a judge (sometimes referred to as a 'bench trial'). Although there is a tendency to associate trial lawyers with criminal cases, this is largely a perception perpetrated by Hollywood and cheap paperbacks. By far the majority of trials involve business disputes. This could be a a construction company that is in some sort of dispute with another construction company, or the owners of certain projects being in disagreement with the contractors employed to realize those projects. Other common areas of disputation include investors in a certain company who are in dispute woth the people who run the company, eminent domain proceedings, personal injury claims, and child custody.
Naturally, there are certain trial lawyers who only take on criminal cases. These criminal defense lawyers undertake a wide range of criminally related cases from petty theft to embezzlement, murder and rape, to robbery and burglary. Other trial lawyers work for governmental agencies (district attorneys), and as public defenders. Indeed, there are as many trial lawyers as there are types of crime. The list is almost endless. However, as Tony Spencer advises, if you are curious about becoming a trial lawyer, why not go to a courthouse and watch the proceedings? Most trials are available to the general public. You will generally be asked by one of the court officials what you are doing at the court, simply tell them you are interested in how the legal system operates.
Tony Spencer has been in the business of winning cases for his clients for over 30 years. He has won personal injury, family law, criminal, traffic, and business cases. In working on a huge range of cases over this time he has become an expert in areas as diverse as veterinary medicine, toxicology, DNA identification, cell phone triangulation, the science of radar, the workings of breath-test machines, the U.S. taxation of reinsurance proceeds, and the pallet industry. Indeed Tony Spencer is the only trial lawyer in the state of Virginia to have won two seperate murder cases where no body was found. He also successfully won a case involving a complex securities law issue before the New York Stock Exchange Arbitration Panel on behalf of an individual investor going up against the national investment firm of Oppenheimer & Co.
