"You learn more from your losses than your wins," says Nathan Werksman — and that conviction is the reason this show exists. In this debut episode of Taking It on the Chin, Nathan and Sam Martin, colleagues at Merson Law, explain why they built a legal podcast around the cases that didn't go their way. Nathan shares about the juror who spotted his nervous leg-tapping and read it as weakness, while Sam breaks down a first trial he lost by winning the law but losing the jury. Together, they argue that studying failure — not bragging about verdicts — is what turns good trial lawyers into elite ones. Tune in for the losses the highlight reel leaves out.

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Every trial lawyer has a highlight reel. This is everything else.

Before the big wins and headlines, there's a different story: the cases that didn't go their way, the losses, the moments that stung, and the hard-won wisdom that actually makes you better in the courtroom.

Welcome to Taking It on the Chin.

Join Nathan Werksman, Sam Martin, and top trial lawyers from across the country as they open up about what it really takes to become a better trial lawyer. No false bravado. No pretending losses don’t happen. These are the conversations that turn bad days in court into the wins that come next.

Because the lawyers who became elite? They didn't just win their way there.

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