Every summer, Phillips Law Offices takes on a handful of law clerks. On his last day this year, one of them, a rising second-year law student named Grafton, sat down with partner Stephen J. Phillips and asked the questions law students actually want answered. Not the recruiting-brochure questions. The real ones: what young lawyers get wrong in front of a jury, how to handle an opposing counsel with twenty years on you, and whether the work is anything like the billboards suggest.

The full conversation runs about twenty minutes and is worth watching straight through. A lightly edited transcript follows…

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