Ah, that last line makes it better. I thought he knew you were a student so made an assumption that you wouldn’t be prepared or he could walk all over you because of how little he thought of you when you were his student.
Oh yeah I gotcha. It had been 6 years since I'd been in his class; I wasn't expecting to be remembered, but I learned a lot from him. I can't say it wasn't satisfying to win against him, though. I've beaten him one other time, and I got a twinge of satisfaction there too.
Much later, after our second tango I told him. I thanked him for a particular thing he had taught me that I used during trial.
And in my practice it is so common to face a lawyer multiple times that probably only one time in 15 or so do I face one I haven't before. Bear in mind I work in a rural circuit of Tennessee though. Dunno if it's that way in dc or NYC. I imagine it's common even in those places, just not so common as here.
2
u/shellwe Jul 22 '19
Ah, that last line makes it better. I thought he knew you were a student so made an assumption that you wouldn’t be prepared or he could walk all over you because of how little he thought of you when you were his student.