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62 Drake L. Rev. Discourse 1 (2013)

handle is hein.journals/dralours3 and id is 1 raw text is: YOU BETTER REPRESENT: LESSONS ABOUT LAWYERING FROM ADOLESCENTS (REAL AND IMAGINED) Brent Pattison* TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction .............1.................................. II. Lessons From Adolescents About Lawyering ......................3 A. Lesson One: Overcoming the Caulfield Presumption .............3 B. Lesson Two: It s a Matter of Time..............6.........6 C. Lesson Three: Make It a Fair Fight .............8........8 III. Conclusion: Your Clients Can Make You a Better Lawyer ...........10 Lawyers are all right, I guess - but it doesn't appeal to me, I said. I mean they're all right if they go around saving innocent guys' lives all the time, and like that, but you don't do that kind of stuff if you're a lawyer. All you do is make a lot of dough and play golf and play bridge and buy cars and drink Martinis and look like a hot-shot. And besides. Even if you did go around saving guys' lives and all, how would you know if you did it because you really wanted to save guys' lives, or because you did it because what you really wanted to do was be a terrific lawyer, with everybody slapping you on the back and congratulating you in court when the goddam trial was over, the reporters and everybody, the way it is in the dirty movies? How would you know you weren't being a phony? The trouble is, you wouldn't. I. INTRODUCTION When I was in college, I worked part-time at a youth shelter. Young people aged eleven to seventeen lived there temporarily while they awaited more permanent placements, or maybe a return home. When I was not being taken to * Brent Pattison is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Law and the Director of the Middleton Children's Rights Center at Drake University Law School. Brent wishes to thank the youth of the Ingersoll Youth Shelter, as well as his current and former clients who have helped him become a better lawyer. He also wishes to thank Beth Colgan for her comments on an early draft of this Essay. 1. J. D. SALINGER, THE CATCHER IN THE RYE, 223 24 (1951). 1