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...result of this newfound desire for worldly experience, Fisher followed up his Harvard Law School education in 1946 by going to Paris with Averell Harriman, a top State Department official, to work on the Marshall Plan. Fisher says he was selected for the mission, along with former Yale president Kingman Brewster, because he had "pretty good grades...
...Fisher returned to the U.S. to work for prominent Washington law firm. Since it specialized in international disputes, the young Fisher continued to hone his negotiation skills overseas, in varied places such as Denmark, Iran and Pakistan...
...that point, Fisher was ready for the rough-and-tumble world of arguing cases for the government, winning his first eight cases he argued for the Solicitor General's office in front of the Supreme Court. Fisher then asked his supervisor for a "tough" case, but he says he learned more from the response than he did from his previous string of victories...
...said, 'did you ever think what would happen if the government won every case?'" Fisher says. "That's kind of stuck with me. More important than every victory is working each case...
...People ask who's winning this negotiation," Fisher says. "[If] you ask who's winning this marriage, you're not doing very well...