| Abraham Lincoln - History - 1989 - 946 pages
...of speaking, shall claim exemption from the drudgery of the law, his case is a failure in advance. Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to...nominal winner is often a real loser — in fees, and expenses, and waste of time. As a peace-maker the lawyer has a superior opertunity of being a good... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Appellate courts - 1990 - 598 pages
...COLLEAGUES TO "DISCOURAGE LITIGATION", AND TO "PERSUADE YOUR NEIGHBOR TO COMPROMISE WHENEVER YOU CAN. AS A PEACEMAKER THE LAWYER HAS A SUPERIOR OPPORTUNITY OF BEING A GOOD MAN. THERE WILL STILL BE BUSINESS ENOUGH FOR EVERYONE", LINCOLN SAID. FIRST, WE ARE IN DESPERATE NEED OF... | |
| Henri Abraham Wassenbergh, Tanja L. Masson-Zwaan, Pablo Mendes de Leon - Law - 1992 - 348 pages
...for a Law Lecture" dated July 1850, urged lawyers to "discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbours to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them...lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man". How sad it is that this sound advice has been ignored by so many generations of lawyers.6 Despite the... | |
| Mary Ann Glendon - Political Science - 2008 - 240 pages
...in what is still the main business of the profession — helping citizens to live decently together. Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to...lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.9 Similarly, the uncelebrated majority of American judges are engaged... | |
| Richard J. Heafey, Don M. Kennedy - Products liability - 2016 - 906 pages
...Nicolay and Hay (eds.) 2 Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln, 142 (1894). "Discourage litigation. Dissuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point...nominal winner is often a real loser — in fees, in expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker, the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good... | |
| Sharon Creeden - Juvenile Fiction - 1994 - 208 pages
...legal colleagues, "Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. ... As a peacemaker, the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough." Coyote and Horned Toad (Navajo) One day Coyote was very hungry.... | |
| |