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Anytime you can sit in on court or depositions, whether in person or by zoom, do it. And if you can’t see real ones, I bet there are many transcripts at your new firm — read them.

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Is it insurance defense

Insurance defense is mostly templates. Look at old ones and see how they formulate things.

Also, I see you’re still a clerk. When I clerked I would watch live streams of trial courts. Watch the live streams of motion hearings and see how all the attorneys argue (even if you’re busy keep the noise on just to hear how attorney argue)

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