Legal Grounds | Brent Turman on the Portrayal and Practice of Law, Being Willing to Adjust the Narrative, & the Outsized Impact of Unseen Work.
When someone asks what I ‘do’ for a living, there are times I want to respond with, “I tell stories.” After all, most attorneys spend their time trying to get the “full picture” of what’s happening in a given case, and the best narratives give us just that. Now, unfortunately, somewhere along the way the expression, “telling stories”, became short-hand for “making stuff up”, and since there’s already plenty of jokes about lawyers’ relationship with the truth, my answer is typically a ...
