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Things that shape the career

• Clinics and trial advocacy in law school

  Real cases under supervision. This is the closest thing to practice before you graduate.

• Starting on the insurance defense side

  Defending insurers teaches you how the other side values a claim, and many plaintiff lawyers start there deliberately.

• Medical knowledge

  Injury cases live or die on medical records. Lawyers who can read them properly settle for more.

• A second language

  Client-facing injury practice in many American cities runs heavily in Spanish.