Dax Cowart exemplified how an everyman can experience the most excruciating pain, transcend the pain, remain a true human, and scale great heights. He passed away two days ago, around seventy one years old. In 1995, I arrived at Gerry Spence's Dubois, western Wyoming ranch, where...
Richard "Racehorse" Haynes -- nicknamed for his athletic skills and dubbed "Race" for short -- was at the Trial Lawyers College for a day or two during the first week of the program. What immediately struck me about Race was that this trial lawyer who...
At the Trial Lawyers College, I learned that its founder Gerry Spence is at once an incredibly powerful persuader, very in touch with his strengths and weaknesses, and ready to reveal his vulnerabilities. This started out as simply with Gerry's voicing his disappointment that "Nobody...
Criminal defense lawyers never need to feel alone. Mutual support is just one phone call or courthouse hallway holler away. Victory often is not as elusive as it may at first seem for our initially tough-appearing cases....
