Chilton Varner said organization and preparation are keys to being a successful trial lawyer. “And an ability to just marshal all the facts and the law and to think on about six different levels at any one time. I tell people it is like playing three-dimensional chess: You’ve got to be thinking about what the law is, what your next question is, what the next answer is going to be, is there an objection that you need to argue to the judge in between, and what is the jury doing That lady on the end down here, on the second row-how is she responding to the whole interplay with this witness So you’ve got to do a lot of different things well, and you have to do them very intensely from the beginning of the trial to the end.”
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