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Survivors of catastrophic events are amalgams of flexibility, adaptability, resiliency, realism, inquisitiveness, creativity, tolerance for ambiguity, independence and intuition. These survivor traits – and the study attorneys’ application of these traits to litigation – are the subject of this chapter.
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Kiser, R. (2011). Survivor Personality Traits. In: How Leading Lawyers Think. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20484-5_9
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