Today, new lawyers are at a greater disadvantage than ever. Law school teaches them how to practice competently, but not how to excel. This book gives you practical and straightforward lessons on how to litigate like you have been doing it forever. Lessons that you did not learn in law school, will not find in practice guides, and which you are unlikely to learn at a firm. From adjusting your attitude to detailed strategies and counterstrategies. These lessons do not require you to practice law in an ideal world where your clients tell you everything, your budget is unlimited, opposing counsel is reasonable and coherent, and the judge has time to thoroughly analyze your case. This book applies to you: the modern practitioner of the legal arts, whose clients fall behind on their bills, who has cases that lack necessary pieces of crucial evidence, and who appears regularly before judges who don't have time to fully consider the arguments or spend more than five minutes to hear an important motion. Whether you are brand new and looking to get an edge over your peers, or have been practicing for decades, you can practice law better. This book teaches you how!