Imagine a samurai in a courtroom. For him, litigation is a noble battle in which one must defend the interests of the client who hired him until the last breath, while maintaining honor and dignity. This is how lawyer Mergen Doraev sees modern litigators and trial lawyers. Instead of kimonos, they wear business suits, and instead of a sword, they use their own ingenuity and charisma. But the set of ethical rules that guide them is not much different from bushido, the code of the samurai.