Law School

The following advice pertains more for when you get of law school and start practicing law: get mean as hell. I mean real mean, practice and practice cultivating hate. At the same time learn how to control that hate and direct it towards your opponents. Don't do anything stupid. But if you want to become a litigator the best advice I have is to treat it as controlled (meaning it has rules) warfare.

I couldn't disagree with this more.

The warfare part may have some merit, but I have serious reservations with the advice of "practice cultivating hate." It is my experience that the a calm, level head in all situations generally allows the best course to make itself clear. A good attorney may use meaness and hate to succeed. But a great attorney can recognize that attribute of his opponent and use it against him.

IMO.