Litigation and the Art of War with Troy Doucet
Description
On this episode, Maxwell Goss interviews Troy Doucet, a leading foreclosure defense attorney, law entrepreneur, and accomplished author. Troy has written a book called The Art of War for Lawyers, which takes insights from the classic text The Art of War and applies them to modern litigation. Troy talks about developing a winning strategy, and expounds on the five factors every litigator needs to master to get great results for clients. Troy also talks about his foreclosure practice and his new legal eLearning venture.
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“If you are able to keep your strategy secret, but you figure out what the other side’s is,
then you are able to focus all of your energies on one point,
whereas the other side has to attack or defend all points.”
-Troy Doucet
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- 00:19 – Introduction
- 01:25 – Troy Doucet's foreclosure defense practice
- 03:34 – Troy's life before practicing law
- 09:44 – Troy's e-learning venture
- 13:53 – The Art of War for Lawyers
- 15:44 – Sun Tzu's The Art of War
- 21:45 – The 5 factors for success in battle
- 29:01 – Strategy in warfare and litigation
- 37:18 – Secrecy and litigation
- 44:23 – Where to find Troy online
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Troy Doucet opened his law firm in 2010, immediately after graduating law school. Law is a second career for him, after extensive work in the mortgage industry. He works hard for his clients and has always maintained a philosophy that you should not have to be rich to hire a good lawyer.
Troy has litigated hundreds of cases and dozens of appeals in his career, with several notable decisions that shape consumer law for the benefit of people at the Sixth Circuit federal appellate court. He is licensed in Ohio and Florida and admitted to practice in the U.S. District Courts for the Northern District of Ohio, the Southern District of Ohio, and the Southern District of Florida, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court of the United States.
Due to Troy’s years of work in the mortgage industry, he has a unique and comprehensive understanding of mortgage financing and foreclosure defense. He published a 440-page book about litigating foreclosure cases in 2008, titled, 23 Legal Defenses to Foreclosure: How to Beat the Bank, and then published an integrated copy of Regulation Z in 2009, titled Regulation Z of the Truth in Lending Act: 12 C.F.R. Part 226. In 2014, he published The Art of War for Lawyers. He regularly speaks on the topic of foreclosure and consumer law and has taught numerous CLE courses for other lawyers.
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United States
