Struggling with back issues means I do stretches and walk on the treadmill in short intervals. Other times I’m sitting with ice on the troubled spots with not much to do except watch TV. During these down times, I’m glued to CourtTV for the Lindsay Clancy trial.
Lindsay Clancy’s lead defense attorney is 75 years old.
Kevin J. Reddington has been practicing law since 1975, meaning he has about 51 years of experience as a trial attorney. He has handled more than 100 murder cases during his career. He’s a member of the American College of Trial Lawyers — an organization that represents fewer than 1% of trial lawyers in the U.S., Canada and Great Britain.
I did a bit of research on the dude because he’s whip smart and obviously old.
Even older than me (and LOTS older than Perry)!!
He’s a black belt in karate and has several tattoos — and he has used some rather unconventional courtroom demonstrations during past trials.
75 is pretty remarkable when you watch him in court. He is still doing an enormous amount of trial work and, according to a recent profile, is essentially running a solo practice with help from his son.
His experience shows…
He has that “I’m just trying to help you here” manner that can make a witness relax—while he’s quietly narrowing the funnel and getting them to commit to exactly what he wants on the record. That’s a very different skill from simply knowing the law. It’s trial instinct, and 50+ years in court gives him an enormous reservoir of experience to draw from.
At 75, he’s demonstrating something that gets overlooked far too often: experience doesn’t necessarily make you slower—it can make you much more efficient. He doesn’t seem to need to prove that he’s the smartest person in the room. He can listen, wait, ask a seemingly innocuous question…and there it is. 😂
For those of us on the other side of 60, watching someone like that is pretty darn encouraging:
We’re not “old.” We’re just accumulating ammunition. 😄
Now you know: A battery invented in 1825 by an Italian Physicist and Priest has been ringing a bell continuously and hasn’t run out yet.