The year after I got my law license, I won my first major case. It was a construction defect dispute, and the defendant was one of the top three real estate developers in the city.The plaintiffs were an elderly couple who had spent half their life savings buying a house, only to watch its walls crack and foundation sink. The developer insisted it was just natural soil settlement and refused to compensate them.When I made my opening statement, my voice wasn’t loud, but every word carried weight. I laid out all the evidence, from geological survey reports to construction logs and concrete batch test results, clearly stating the reference number and source for every document.The judge asked the defense for their response to the evidence. The veteran attorney across from me flipped through his papers, stammering out a few weak points that were full of loopholes. I seized on his logical gaps and hit him with three consecutive questions, each one more pressing than the last.By the en
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