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...easy to forget sometimes that John Kerry is a lawyer by training. He seems to have gone straight from Vietnam to the Senate. It is impossible to forget that Edwards practiced law. Before he was elected to the Senate in 1998, he spent 20 years as a trial attorney, one of the most successful in the nation. His specialty was medical malpractice, particularly cases involving infants who suffered trauma during delivery. Edwards won judgments totaling more than $152 million in 63 lawsuits, according to the Center for Public Integrity...
Most such cases are undertaken on a contingency-fee basis--meaning the lawyers collect nothing if they lose but commonly take about one-third of the award if they win. From the moment Edwards emerged as a possible presidential contender, Republicans have tried to cast him as a millionaire ambulance chaser, the kind of man who forces doctors and businesses to pay ever higher liability-insurance costs, which are passed on to consumers. Edwards argues that he was defending the consumer and that high premiums have more to do with bad financial management at insurance companies. But the fight goes...
...light of Edwards' success as a lawyer, some of the people most bitterly opposed to his legal career are wishing him well in politics. "The best thing about him running," says Robert Seligson, head of the North Carolina Medical Society, "is it keeps him out of the courtroom...
When Elizabeth Edwards was a bankruptcy lawyer in Raleigh, N.C., she spent much of her court time in the "second chair," providing advice and often doing the heavy legal lifting for the lead attorney on a case. Being second chair was less glamorous than taking the lead, and it didn't come naturally to someone so outspoken, eloquent and whip-smart. But it gave Elizabeth what she wanted--more manageable hours and more time to spend with her children. And it was great training for advising her husband through a meteoric six-year rise from political neophyte to vice-presidential...
...next 19 years, their life seemed to approach perfection. They had two children, Wade and Catharine; John's career as a trial lawyer took off, making them fabulously wealthy; and Elizabeth managed to juggle her own legal work with the duties she cared about most: attending PTA meetings, shuttling the kids to soccer games and making their Halloween costumes. One year, when Wade and his friends wanted to dress as parts of a golf course, she figured out how to make real grass grow on cardboard. The idyll collapsed in April 1996, when Wade, 16, died in a freak...