10 Things Learned After Over 25 Years of Practicing Law

Greg Curry

2014 TADC Winter Seminar

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Learn From Defeat

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

Winston Churchill

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Protect the Civil Jury System

“I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system—that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.”

Atticus Finch To Kill A Mockingbird

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Get Involved

“We must always be mindful that the practice of law is a profession. As members of a learned art, we pursue a common calling in the spirit of public service. We have a proud tradition. Throughout the history of our nation, the members of our citizenry have looked to the rank of our profession for leadership and guidance.”

Texas Lawyer’s Creed

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Learn to Trust Others

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”

Ernest Hemingway

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Treat Others With Respect

“If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.”

Louis D. Brandeis

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All I Ever Needed to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten…

• Share everything.

• Play fair.

• Don’t hit people.

• Put things back where you found them.

• Clean up your own mess.

• Don’t take things that aren’t yours.

• Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody.

• When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.