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to be successful in the courtroom you
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have to have people skills you have to
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have the ability
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to relate to those individuals be able
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to connect with the jury
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get them to understand what you’re
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talking about get them to relate to your
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clients so that they feel like
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they’re in the position of your client
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they can understand how your client is
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feeling they can understand what your
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clients gone through
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that way they’re able to see the
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emotional side because it’s very very
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hard for jurors to step
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in and then four days make a decision
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over something that’s happened to a
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person for
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let’s say over five years
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so outside the office i stay incredibly
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busy i have a young daughter
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she of course keeps me on my toes all
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the times and then i’m obsessed with
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doing ironman triathlons i’ve done
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25 of them full distance races all over
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the world
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i’m now into the extreme triathlons
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which is doing
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around 15 000 feet of elevation gain and
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you start in the middle of the night
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and then you go for about 15 16 hours
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and if you don’t make it
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within a certain amount of time they cut
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you off and your goal is to always
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finish you know at the top so you can
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complete the entire race
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so that takes more time than you could
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ever imagine
Denver, CO personal injury attorney Robert Wilhite talks about what it takes to be successful in the courtroom as well as what he does outside the office.