Many attorneys try to try cases, but most quit, and begin passing off trials to other attorneys to handle. Only a relatively few attorneys try cases and continue to do so for the length of a career, or a comparable time, because trying cases is perhaps the most pressurized and stressful activity known to mankind. The most complex surgery takes perhaps 15 to 18 hours by a team of physicians. Certainly while the surgery is ongoing, the pressure is equivalent to trying a case. But a trial goes on for weeks, sometimes even months.
Witnesses reverse themselves.
New evidence comes to light. The other side is always full of surprises. And the trial lawyer must completely handle it all, because that trial is perhaps the most important thing to his or her client's life. I am obligated to state that none of the results I have obtained guarantee results in any future cases. I also feel obligated to admit that I have not won every case I have ever tried.