Lawyers spend a lot of time learning and “practicing”, so it should come as no surprise that, like everyone else, lawyers can learn from failure:
“Before SpaceX’s successful launch of its giant Falcon Heavy rocket last week, quirky billionaire and company CEO Elon Musk told reporters, “there is a good chance this monster rocket blows up.”…The fact that Musk acknowledge the possibility of a catastrophic failure fits with his ethos, and that of many successful Silicon Valley entrepreneurs—that failure is a integral part of success….Those in the risk adverse legal profession may not be as willing to talk about failure as the startup world, but that doesn’t mean lawyers shouldn’t be looking at failure through a similar lens.”
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