This column discusses the alarming decline of the number of trial lawyers practicing at the bar and the small number of new trial lawyers being trained. This trend is alarming because the trial lawyer is the strength of the common law system. No matter how successful settlement procedures work, it is essential that the bar have a substantial number of skilled trial lawyers to try a case in open court. We are operating with the restrictions of the COVID pandemic, and the number of trial lawyers is diminishing; this is war time, let us solve this problem.