Paul C. Brunson

Like have an honest conversation with yourself and your counsel about who is my partner.

Because if you're against someone who's going to be villainous potentially, you've got to bring a different toolkit to the situation.

Like it's better to have a trial lawyer and not need me

than to need a trial lawyer and hire a mediator because you think maybe if I hire a really friendly person that it'll keep it friendly.

It's not how it works.

Like, it's not how it works.

Like, the main levers in my experience as a litigator are fear and greed.

It's not empathy.

It's not empathy.

It's not compassion.

It's fear and greed.

My job is to cultivate leverage and decide how and when to use it.

But three is really... Three is to shore up the fences and get good lawyer and really trust your counsel if you found good counsel.

And then trust the fact that sometimes the path to peace is war.

There are so many people in New York City who hate me.

because I was a weapon pointed at them.

And my job was to take them apart.

And I did it.

And I did it well.

And I'm proud that I did it because it's my job.