Trial lawyers love to talk about their wins. Their big verdicts, their huge settlements.

Do they start their careers out hitting homerun after homerun? Maybe some do.

But that is not our story. In this episode we talk about the first two trials we did as a team.

They were utter disasters.

We should have known from the time we set the cases for trial that we were in trouble. Though the cases were set more than half a year in advance, we made the mistake of setting the two trials on consecutive days.

Things got worse. Bob's trial ended up in a defense verdict. He had to then pack up his car to head to the next town to join Lauren at the hotel for her first civil jury trial that started the next day.

Things then just contined to get worse, as the trial judge granted a motion to strike the evidence at the end of the first day of trial. So, in other words, the case got dismissed.

That means in the course of about 28 hours, hundreds of hours of our work went up in smoke. We were both devastated.

But the story did not end there. Tune in to listen how things turned out.

At the end, trial lawyers can expect losses. Most of those losses will not have a happy ending.

The key is to persevere, to be resilient. If you have been called to be a trial lawyer, you must be faithful to that call.

And that means dealing with inevitable losses.