Gifted trial lawyers have a knack for boiling things down without oversimplifying. They often persuade you without you noticing you’ve been persuaded.

I think that’s precisely what Karen Dunn of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison did last week when we hopped on the phone to talk about trial work. Dunn came out of the gate with a digestible, compelling takeaway:  Lots of people think of trial lawyers as generalists, including many trial lawyers who describe themselves that way. But she says from her perspective, trial is a specialization of its own sort.