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Originally Posted by CO Hummer
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It was actually really humiliating. The junior-most litigator at my Corpus firm would always have to do this night-court thing for training until someone more junior would come in and replace them. The Portland, Texas judge (can?t recall his name) handling traffic cases and Class-C misdemeanors (simple assaults, etc.) was known as the ?hanging judge? for years before I came in because he virtually never sided with the defense on these minor cases. Thus, all my predecessors won virtually every case they tried before this guy. However, just before I went there out of law school, the judge?s teenage son was convicted for getting stoned and driving into (literally) a convenience store in Portland. So, the pissed-off judge did a philosophical 180 and became decidedly pro-defense just as I was coming in. When I was losing about half of my cases, the senior associates and partners were thinking ?WTF! Did we just hire the dumbest lawyer in the world? I tried three years of cases before this guy and never lost one!?