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i have never stopped getting a
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charge out of helping somebody
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if i can get into a situation where
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somebody comes in with a bad situation
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and i make it better that’s a charge to
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me i
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really do understand that and it’s
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it’s like a i don’t want to say it’s
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like a game but it’s a
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clearly a competition for me i’ve got to
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see somebody for the first time
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and help them make their situation a
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whole lot better
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and thankfully i’ve been very very
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successful
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in doing that and i’ve and i’ve made
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maintained relationships
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with with clients if i can go on a
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tangent this is one of my favorites
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i had a client one of the first cases
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that i ever tried
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was an age discrimination case back in
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the late 80s in fact the final judgment
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in that case
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came out the day it was a jury trial
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came out the day my second daughter was
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born and that’s almost 30 years ago
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after that client’s case was continued
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was finished
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we used to call and that was before
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texting and before email we used to call
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every friday and talk about the the
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upcoming weeks football games and talk
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about those we did that
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for a good 10 years until they passed
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away it’s relationships like that
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that are very rewarding to me
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you know credentialing is pretty
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important
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to a lawyer board certification is one
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of them that i’m particularly proud of
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and basically what that means it’s not
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only
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passing a test back in 1994 which i did
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but maintaining and focusing
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on what’s new we have a very strict
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um requirement of hours we have to take
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for continuing education it’s it’s 15
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hours
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in our specialty area alone so that
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doesn’t include other things that i need
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as a lawyer like discovery
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and things like that this is 15 hours in
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my
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area labor and employment law per year
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that’s number one
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number two i have been very privileged
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to have been asked to
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present as a speaker at several seminars
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over the years mostly in labor and
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employment type cases and i
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in fact have been asked on many
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occasions to provide the education
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to the judges so i have the judges
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sitting and you know listening to me and
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then you know hopefully when i get to
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their court
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and they’re ruling a certain way i could
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you know they’ll remember
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what what i told them and others it’s
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not going to sway rulings but
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but i do establish a good degree of
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credibility with the judges
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but perhaps the one thing i’m really
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most proud of
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was back in the late 90s to the early
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2000s
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i was asked to edit
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and prepare what we call the texas
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pattern jury charges so
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at the end of a trial the jury is given
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what’s called the charge it’s a familiar
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term to a lot of people basically
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questions and instructions
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but those questions and instructions
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come from somewhere they’ve got to be
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written
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somewhere they obviously come from the
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the the
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applicable law and things like that but
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i was
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i was in charge of it on the employment
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law side
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from the plaintiff’s perspective i
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worked with well one of the people i
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worked with later became the chief
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justice of the supreme court of texas
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and and and other people and that was a
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huge honor because even to this day
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i’ve not done it for the last several
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years they do update it
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pass it on to other people but it’s just
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so rewarding to still
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see my name in there as
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an editor from the day the day they
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started that was
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very rewarding and i really enjoyed that
Houston, TX employment law attorney Gregg M. Rosenberg shares the most rewarding aspect of his practice as well as his awards and credentials.