184: Dyke Huish of The Huish Law Firm discusses becoming a Lawpreneur with us.

Dyke Huish of The Huish Law Firm is a prominent Southern California Criminal Defense Attorney with over 20 years of experience. He is the rare attorney that has served as both a Deputy District Attorney and Deputy Public Defender. He is a California Certified Criminal Law Specialist. Dyke is a veteran of more than 300 bench and jury trials and has personally handled over 5000 criminal cases. He is a well sought after speaker on trial tactics, courtroom strategies and jury psychology. He has handled more than half a billion dollars in fraud cases and successfully litigated one of the largest fraud cases in the history of the State of California. He has a Master Degree in Psychology and is the father of five children.

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Fail fast to succeed faster

• Listen as Dyke tells about losing an early case he took to trial.  Deconstructing the loss taught him lessons that he still uses  in the courtroom today.
• Dyke reminds us that building and running a law pracitce is a long term process.  Seeds that are planted today always bear fruit, just that it sometimes takes a decade to see it.

Tell us something good

• Dyke shares that he represented a young couple with drug charges.  He crafted a deal where the guy took prison and the woman went free.  They turned their life around and later encountered him on the street where they thanked him profusely.

What’s on your desk?

• Dyke handles everything from traffic to murder cases.  Currently he is creating a program on how the lessons of the courtroom effect our daily lives.

Favorite Books:

• The Call of the Wild The Call of the Wild is a novel by Jack London published in 1903. The story is set in the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush—a period when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The novel’s central character is a dog named Buck, a domesticated dog living at a ranch in the Santa Clara valley of California as the story opens. Stolen from his home and sold into the brutal existence of an Alaskan sled dog, he reverts to atavistic traits. Buck is forced to adjust to, and survive, cruel treatments and fight to dominate other dogs in a harsh climate. Eventually he sheds the veneer of civilization, relying on primordial instincts and lessons he learns, to emerge as a leader in the wild.
• 1984 Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, Orwell’s narrative is timelier than ever. 1984 presents a startling and haunting vision of the world, so powerful that it is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the power of this novel, its hold on the imaginations of multiple generations of readers, or the resiliency of its admonitions—a legacy that seems only to grow with the passage of time.
• To Kill a Mockingbird The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic.
• A Christmas Carol A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens. It was first published by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. Carol tells the story of a bitter old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation resulting from a supernatural visit by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present and Yet to Come.
• The Complete Sherlock Holmes: Volumes 1-4 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes tales are rightly ranked among the seminal works of mystery and detective fiction. The splendid illustrations in this collection more than befit that classic status. Included are all four full-length Holmes novels and more than forty short masterpieces—from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes to The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes and more. At the center of each stands the iconic figure of Holmes—brilliant, eccentric, and capable of amazing feats of deductive reasoning. By his side is Dr. John Watson, his steadfast assistant and our trusty narrator. This set is a must-have for every discriminating bibliophile and Sherlock Holmes fan.

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