Craig sits down with longtime Mississippi family lawyer David Bridges for a wide-ranging conversation about his career, which spans from earning an accounting degree at LSU and completing Baylor Law School's rigorous Practice Court program to more than 25 years focused on family law in Mississippi. Craig and David have spent plenty of time across the courtroom from each other over the years. In this episode of the R+E podcast, they trade stories about practicing family law, the mentors who shaped them, the preparation required to try difficult cases, and the unique responsibility lawyers carry when helping families through some of the hardest seasons of their lives. David also talks candidly about how experiencing divorce himself changed his perspective as a family lawyer. The conversation eventually turns to David's decision to seek the open Place 3 seat on Mississippi's 11th Chancery Court District and his thoughts about the experience and temperament required of a chancellor. Along the way, Craig and David find time for some decidedly non-legal territory, including baseball, oil painting and the importance of finding something that can pull a lawyer completely into the present moment. It's a conversation between two lawyers who have competed against each other, learned from many of the same people and developed a friendship through years in the trenches of Mississippi family law.