Re: Let's take stock.

Juries hate alpha trial lawyers and judges especially love to shut them down. Nobody wants to feel threatened, belittled, dominated, or put in their place, however subtlety it is done. Alpha behavior always causes hatred and resentment in others. People aren't totally stupid, they know on some emotional level what's going on. You can win the battle for a chick or two by AMOGing people, but you can never win the war. Social situations aren't Waterloo, they're Vietnam. You can't kill the enemy. Everybody you trashed on the way to the top will take potshots at you until the entire social well is poisoned and you come crashing right back down (if you ever get anywhere at all). It makes perfect evolutionary and psychological sense.

All of the good, respected trial lawyers I know are more beta than alpha. Not computer programmer dungeons and dragons beta (or omega), but they certainly aren't in-your-face captain of the football team alpha or yes, the jocks and thugs you see as the center of attention in clubs. The shitty trial lawyers who are legends in their own minds are usually alpha, but everyone else laughs at them behind their back and sabotages them in the rest of the legal community. The very well-known and respected lawyer I work with, for example, has two big cases pending right now. The lawyers on the two cases are called "Jackass" and "Asshole" respectively, which the rest of the office has taken to calling them as well, even in formal e-mails to each other. Guess how they got on that shit list? Alpha domination behavior.

Alpha -> Retaliation
Retaliation = Bad