ADVICE TO A NEWLY QUALIFIED LITIGATOR (1): READ THIS CASE: BE WARY OF OPENING YOUR MOUTH TOO WIDE: TURN DOWN £1.5 MILLION AND GET £2.00 INSTEAD

A member of my family qualifies as a solicitor tomorrow and starts working in litigation.  I have been pondering the best advice to give a newly qualified litigation solicitor.  I intended a recap post of all those cases where litigants have got to trial and not have any evidence to prove their case...