I similarly need to know your objectives - what strategic goal is of primary importance to you. Some objectives cannot be achieved without the loss of some other objective. Jointly, you and I will choose a strategy that appears most effectively to maximize the benefit to you. Part of the art of war is knowing when not to do battle. Fatal terrain is a battleground on which the enemy may be vanquished.
Nothing is more foolish than engaging in a final battle where one is doomed to lose.
My job, and the product of my experience, is to identify the area of fatal terrain on which you and I may engage the enemy and ultimately prevail. Some battles along the way may be lost, some by design in order to gain a more important objective, a more important advantage, one that will lead to the final victory. If the battle is to be fought it will be fought hard, but fairly. The most important decision in any DWI case is the formulation of the overall plan that the war is to follow, identifying the potentially fatal terrain, and there and only there engaging the enemy in final battle. As in war, the battle in the legal arena involves the assessment of not only of the strength of the enemy, but the strength of the forces of the defense as well.