Is Experience Optional? Critics Challenge Griswold’s Attorney General Bid

By Eric Sondermann | Commentary, Colorado Politics

If you were in a child custody dispute with a former spouse, would you hire an attorney with experience in family law or would you trust your case to an operative with virtually zero mastery?

If you were getting ready to sue your employer for unpaid wages or a toxic workplace, would you enlist a lawyer with a background in employment statutes or would you put your fate in the hands of someone who had never really practiced law?

If you were a doctor being charged with medical malpractice, would you retain a novice lawyer who had never argued a case?

What kind of attorney would you retain to defend your teenager accused of shoplifting? Or to represent you in a complicated real estate transaction? Or to handle a breach of trademark claim? Or to litigate for damages resulting from a collision with a drunk driver?

If you read through this series of questions on top of plenty of other easy-to-imagine scenarios and answer that experience is overrated, then Jena Griswold is your candidate for Colorado attorney general.

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