No Free Rides for Douglas Colt

admin — Fri, 08 May 2009 16:17:45 +0000

Although 34 year old Douglas Colt might be a successful associate attorney at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges today, he’s no stranger to blue collar work.

At the tender age of 9, Douglas Colt started his first job washing dishes at Giuseppe’s Old Depot Restaurant in Colorado Springs. His father, Edward Colt, founded the restaurant in the 1960’s. The historic building into which Giuseppe’s moved in the early 1970’s served as the train station for Colorado Springs from 1871 to 1971. Giuseppe’s is now the second largest restaurant in Colorado. It continues to provide Colorado Spring locals and tourists with a peek into a more gracious style of dining. Visit their website at http://www.giuseppes-depot.com/

By age 11, Douglas Colt was bussing tables at Giuseppe’s and soon after was waiting tables and manning the cash register. His earnings allowed him to pay his own way through high school at Cheyenne Mountain High School and most of college at Washington University in Saint Louis, MO.

He would go on to study law at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. before gaining invaluable litigation experience at Coddington, Hicks & Danforth. He then moved to Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges where he is now a Senior Litigation Associate. As a lawyer, his areas of specialization include Trademark, False Advertising, Copyright, Unfair Competition, Trade Secret, and Commercial Litigation. Read more about Douglas Colt at http://dougcolt.blogspot.com/

To read more information about Douglas Colt please visit www.Attorney-Douglas-Colt.com

Good Attorney

admin — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:44:04 +0000

Lawyers are expected to be equipped with good communication and writing skills. There are a lot of law students who excelled during their college years but have difficulty in law school because of poor penmanship or being unable to express their opinions in public or in a courtroom. A lawyer should be fluent in English in a courtroom, and should be able to receive constructive criticism. These also mean that you must have a wide knowledge on basic laws. Lawyers generally have backgrounds in English, Philosophy, Ethics, Logic, Political Science, Economics, Public Speaking and Foreign Languages. Critical thinking and analytical reasoning of solving problems is very important. A lawyer who sets goals in a systematic way will find it easy to deal the day-to-day demands of court and cases assigned.

A good medium of acquiring knowledge and development of systematic skills is to have an internship in a courtroom or to become a student assistant of a court lawyer. It’s a good opportunity for a law student to see what it really takes to become a good lawyer

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