December 17, 2025
As a lawyer, your goal is always to defeat your adversary. So is it preferable to have an adversary who doesn’t know what he is doing?
Typically, no.
Litigation requires cooperation between adversaries. And when your adversary doesn’t understand the case, it can result in significantly more time and effort to get to the same place.
In this short video, Schlam Stone & Dolan partner Joshua Wurtzel explains how the worst adversary to go against in court is the lawyer who doesn’t know what he’s doing.
Watch Joshua’s full video below:
Joshua Wurtzel is a partner at Schlam Stone & Dolan LLP who focuses his practice on complex commercial, real-estate, and commercial-lending litigation. He has been recognized on the Best Lawyers “Ones to Watch® in America” list in Commercial Litigation and the New York Metro Super Lawyers® "Rising Stars" list in Business Litigation.