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I think I learned more about trying cases selling encyclopedias than I did in law school. You gotta remember, in law school when I went to law school, there was no clinical law. You didn’t deal with any actual cases. You didn’t deal with any actual clients. In fact, we didn’t even have a trial moot court. The only moot court we had was appellate moot court. And so I spent – I probably said “hi there” more than anybody in the history of mankind, but I learned, I think, how to judge people, to a degree how to handle people, critics might say manipulate people, but dealt primarily with a very young audience of people between 21 and 30. And it’s kinda fun to look back and tell stories about selling encyclopedias. It wasn’t fun while you were doing it. I tell you what: it’s cold around here. And about the third week I was here, I got sent to Duluth for the weekend, and I’d never been in weather like that in my life. And if you didn’t get indoors, you’d freeze to death.

Minnesota criminal defense attorney Joe Friedberg tells how he learned many valuable skills when selling encyclopedias.

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