Many young lawyers seem surprised by that fact.
Obviously those who fancy themselves to be litigators are far more, or at least should be, aware of their role as combatants on behalf of others. My purpose in making these remarks is to share some of the wisdom I have acquired after almost twenty years of practice as a divorce lawyer. I have been told in the past that there are no more difficult clients, or, one might add, lawyers, than those involved in divorce proceedings. The generally temporary insanity attributable to the divorce litigants should be considered contagious since the lawyers and judges involved with these cases so frequently seem to become infected. Nice people behave very badly during a divorce.