When To Keep Your Mouth Shut: Lessons From A Litigator

Andrea Coleman
3 min readOct 18, 2021
Photo by Kristina Flour on Unsplash

I’ve been a trial attorney for over 14 years and the tricks of the trade that I’ve used in court are also helpful in life. I’ve found more than once that silence is hella golden. Here’s when to keep your mouth shut:

When you’re winning

I made this mistake in court once. Argh it was brutal. I was there to argue a motion and even…

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Andrea Coleman

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