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Codes and characters

By Shawn Matlock

So Mark Bennett recently said he doesn't think lawyers have codes to live by like everyone else does. I gave him a couple of mine in response. "Trial is war. There are no points for second place." "No case is ever worth your career." Both of those were given to me by my mentor, the great Tom Morgan of Midland. Tom is a legend, and legendary. I've never seen anyone with more work ethic. I've never seen anyone who was as genuinely concerned about his client's welfare that Tom. He's in Cooperstown. By no means are those the only "codes" I live by however. I've got different ones depending on the situation. Of course that makes me think that maybe they aren't so much codes as they are greeting cards. Oh well. Perhaps in another post...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Matlock Blog on March 08, 2008 (boomark / email).