Over at Underdog Blog is a great post about how the legal profession is a service industry and a good way to learn how to be a great lawyer is to gain some experience in a service industry.
Waiting tables seems to be a good way to make one a better trial lawyer. Waiters and waitresses (collectively, "waiters") face customer complaints all the time. Will the waiter learn to diffuse such situations with empathy and humor and to let customer problems roll off the back? At least some do. Waiters often find themselves in between customers and chefs, and trial lawyers often find themselves between clients and judges, clients and prosecutors, and clients and opposing witnesses.
Check out: Does waiting tables make one a better trial lawyer?
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This is the first time I saw someone link a waiter to a lawyer. Not bad...
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