{"id":3043,"date":"2024-10-18T22:10:25","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T22:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/elder-litigators-confront-tough-questions-in-last-act-of-careers\/"},"modified":"2024-10-18T22:10:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T22:10:25","slug":"elder-litigators-confront-tough-questions-in-last-act-of-careers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/elder-litigators-confront-tough-questions-in-last-act-of-careers\/","title":{"rendered":"Elder Litigators Confront Tough Questions in Last Act of Careers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-84c6be9c=\"\">\n<div data-v-84c6be9c=\"\">\n<p>After lengthy careers in courtrooms, older litigators often\u00a0are well-accustomed to addressing tough lines of questioning. However, they might be less prepared when the interrogatories are\u00a0suddenly spotlighted on whether they will continue their practice. Law.com spoke with lawyers who have worked for decades on some of the biggest cases\u00a0to get a behind-the-scenes look at how they view their role in the profession as they age.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!---->  <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-84c6be9c=\"\">\n<p>Wilmer&#8217;s Lee says the work was taxing. &#8220;It requires a degree of mental and physical stamina that, at least for me as I&#8217;m in my 70s, was not something that I could look myself in the mirror and claim that I was sure that I had.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/2024\/10\/01\/i-dont-hide-my-age-80-and-practicing-in-big-law\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;I Don&#8217;t Hide My Age&#8217;: 82 and Practicing in Big Law<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!---->  <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-84c6be9c=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;But I&#8217;m an old dinosaur,&#8221; Adam Seiden said, &#8220;and I&#8217;ve been doing things a certain way, and I realize I&#8217;ve had to adapt to the new way of practicing law. And I&#8217;ve adapted to the extent I can and I keep trying to learn.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After lengthy careers in courtrooms, older litigators often\u00a0are well-accustomed to addressing tough lines of questioning. However, they might be less prepared when the interrogatories are\u00a0suddenly spotlighted on whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[911,3848,3846,2605,3845,2473,3847],"class_list":["post-3043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-act","tag-careers","tag-confront","tag-elder","tag-litigators","tag-questions","tag-tough"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}