Test

“Unless a lawyer has had experience as an advocate, it is difficult to see how he can be a thoroughly competent counselor, for he will not be able to evaluate his client’s cause in terms of the realities of the courtroom… Advocacy is not a gift of the gods. In its trial as well as its appellate aspects, it involves several distinct arts, each of which must be studied and mastered.”

Arthur T. Vanderbilt, American Bar Association Journal,
Vol. 40, No. 1 (January 1954), p. 31.