>> The gratification comes from the clients themselves.
I have to say, most people are not happy to be in litigation, and they shouldn't be,
it's not a pleasant experience for a client.
But they can be happy with their lawyer.
And knowing that a lawyer is doing their best to represent them,
has the knowledge to represent them, you know, in the best way possible,
that satisfaction that comes, sometimes it's verbal, many times it's not.
Many times it comes just in a client giving you a call with a question
about something that's not even related to what you were representing them on and knowing
that your client trusts you enough to give you a call
to ask you a question that's going to affect their company.
So the satisfaction comes from the trust that's put into me by my clients.
Clients are people.
They're not faceless entities.
Even though most of the time I represent corporations,
the people that run them are real people.
And they have their own desires, they have their own flaws, they have their own personalities.
And so dealing with the various personalities of the people is always a challenge.
You know, there are difficult people in the world,
and some of those difficult people are clients.
There are just great people in the world, people that you would want to be friends
with for the rest of your life, and those people are clients, too.
But I think it's understanding the client and adjusting the practice of law to make
that client -- to do your best job for that client.