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What Makes a Great Lawyer

Mr. Ponce represents clients in two primary areas of the law:

1) Civil Litigation (You want to sue, or you are being sued)

2) Criminal Defense (You have been charged with a crime)

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What then makes a great lawyer?

 

All lawyers are not created equal. Anyone who can study and memorize information to take a standardized test can become a lawyer, provided they have no ethical, moral, or criminal issues in their background at the time of their application to be admitted to the practice of law. 

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Yet, true lawyering is far more than just rote memorization of facts and bullet points. Being an effective lawyer requires a deeper understanding of how human beings work. Great lawyering comes from a person who has all the technical certifications, who knows the Constitution, the rules of evidence, and the relevant corpus of law, but who can transcend these basic matrices and achieve favorable outcomes for clients by synthesizing them with human prescience. It requires a sense of savviness, great instincts, outside the box thinking, superb rationality, reasonableness, diplomacy, grace, and tact.

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When someone hires a lawyer who does not possess these qualities, they are at a significant disadvantage when encountering prosecutors, opposing counsel, or aggressive parties. 

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Do you want an elite attorney to represent you? Contact Mr. Ponce for a consultation.

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