Morningside Alum, Steven Postolka visited the journalism department today to talk about his time while attending college. Postolka was a Mass Communications major in his Undergrad and decided to study Law In his Post-grad. Postolka represents Sioux city in all of their legal conundrums, he challenges the citizens and defends the City. He enjoys his work even when his private clients are lying and the challenges of dealing with people who are desperate, and willing to cheat, for a win in court. After all of the clients, money, and cases it is difficult behind the scenes Postolka said
“Most of what I do is not in the courtroom, even as a litigator, I’d say probably 95% of litigation happens outside of the courtroom”.
Preparing how to mold depositions and witness statements into something he is able to give to the judge and properly compete with is a time consuming challenge of his own. After all of these challenges Postolka can rest easy at night now knowing that the money he acquires is no longer based on his private firm. Postolka said
“This has freed me from the obligation to chase retainers”
Sioux City pays him a yearly salary unlike the private companies who pay commission based off of performance and how pricy the cases are, these public litigators live a much more financially secure life than their private adversaries. This eases the mind to the point to where Postolka is allowed to fight for justice rather than self interest. Postolka spoke about how
“There is a certain level of freedom in that[salary]… That means I can actually do justice in cases where justice is needed… trying the cases that need to be tried”.
Morningside Alum, Steven Postolka visited the journalism department today to talk about his time while attending college. Postolka was a Mass Communications major in his Undergrad and decided to study Law In his Post-grad. Postolka represents Sioux city in all of their legal conundrums, he challenges the citizens and defends the City. He enjoys his work even when his private clients are lying and the challenges of dealing with people who are desperate, and willing to cheat, for a win in court. After all of the clients, money, and cases it is difficult behind the scenes Postolka said
“Most of what I do is not in the courtroom, even as a litigator, I’d say probably 95% of litigation happens outside of the courtroom”.
Preparing how to mold depositions and witness statements into something he is able to give to the judge and properly compete with is a time consuming challenge of his own. After all of these challenges Postolka can rest easy at night now knowing that the money he acquires is no longer based on his private firm. Postolka said
“This has freed me from the obligation to chase retainers”
Sioux City pays him a yearly salary unlike the private companies who pay commission based off of performance and how pricy the cases are, these public litigators live a much more financially secure life than their private adversaries. This eases the mind to the point to where Postolka is allowed to fight for justice rather than self interest. Postolka spoke about how
“There is a certain level of freedom in that[salary]… That means I can actually do justice in cases where justice is needed… trying the cases that need to be tried”.