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The Ten Roads to Riches: The Ways the Wealthy Got There (And How You Can Too!)
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The Ten Roads to Riches: The Ways the Wealthy Got There (And How You Can Too!)

by Ken Fisher, Lara W. Hoffmans
November 2009
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
256 pages
10h 55m
English
Wiley
Content preview from The Ten Roads to Riches: The Ways the Wealthy Got There (And How You Can Too!)
Steal
It-Like
a Pirate, but Legally 1113
it another way: America has tens of thousands of petty pirate-like
criminals who would love to trade a year or so in the big house if they
could sail quietly away afterward into the sunset, a fraction as wealthy
as Lerach or Weiss.
Th
is form of pirate's life is lined with booty.
THE
INSIDE
TRACK
PLs won't openly admit this (but will in private): Success is rarely
about the law. In civil trials, arbitrations, or even non-binding
mediations, the key is your ability to convince the jury, judge, arbi-
trator, or mediator that you're the good guy.
Jud
ges won't admit
it,
but
pretty much once he or she, or the jury, decides who are the
good and bad guys, the rest is detail and degree of judgment.
T he law slides in around that character judgment. On ce you con-
vince the judge you're the good guy and the other the bad guy, it's
basically over.
Th
is is why top PLs don't need top law schools. It's
investigation, theatrics, and street-savvy reading of the judge and
players
-n
ot legal nuance. Winning is strategizing- then creati ng
the image convincing the judge or jury somehow, some way, you're
good and your opponent's bad. Pretty ironic in a world of pirates!
There
is an inside track. Many top PLs belong to the Inner
Circle of Advocates. Jo
in-
if you can! It's an honor. (Visit them
at
www.i
nnercircle.org.)
Th
ey only let in the top- earning PLs.
Membership is limited to just 100.
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