🎙Episode #033: Brant Martin (Commercial Trial Lawyer)

👋🏻 Greetings from wet and windy Washington!

In this episode I speak with Brant Martin who is a civil litigator at the Texas-based law firm Wick Phillips where he has been a partner for the past 17 years. Before joining Wick Phillips and helping to grow the firm to more than 60 attorneys across multiple offices, Brant worked in Corporate and Securities Law at a Vault 50 law firm, as a corporate counsel at a startup in New York City, and as a plaintiff-side trial lawyer in Texas. He started his legal career as a law clerk to Chief Judge Schell of the Eastern District of Texas. Brant is a graduate of SMU Law, the Yale Divinity School, and Washington & Lee University.

In our conversation we discuss Brant's path from divinity school to law school; what he does as a trial lawyer representing businesses in litigation against other businesses; his approach to building a law firm and book of business; his approach to training junior lawyers; the importance of building deep, meaningful relationships with clients; and how he prepares for trial and depositions in efficient and effective ways.

This interview has a little bit of everything from abstract questions of what makes a good lawyer to the nitty gritty questions of how to prepare for a deposition. So much wisdom for seasoned lawyers and junior lawyers alike. I hope you enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed interviewing Brant.

See you next week,

Jonah