VIDEO: Risks, jury trials, young lawyers and clients

Many young lawyers find it challenging, at best, to gain courtroom experience. In a video for the June edition’s cover story, “Making Your Case,” veteran trial attorney Tom Comerford explains how law firms weigh the decision to have a young lawyer take a case to a jury and the benefits of giving the lawyer the chance. His observations include:

• “I don’t think it should ever be put to the client that this is a training exercise for the lawyer because they’re not interested in that. They are interested in getting the best possible result they can in their case.”
• “The law firm will be making a prudent decision by sending a younger lawyer to try the case because these lawyers that are incredibly bright, they are incredibly tech savvy, and that’s a bigger and bigger part of trying the case.”
• “One thing that you see time and again is juries like young lawyers; they like the the fresh approach that the young lawyer brings to the case.”

Look for the story “Making Your Case” to be published in this month’s print edition of North Carolina Lawyers Weekly and to be posted online soon at nclawyersweekly.com.

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