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" Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser — in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good... "
Annual Report of the Corporation of the Chamber of Commerce, of the State of ... - Page 10
by New York Chamber of Commerce - 1921
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Alternative Dispute Resolution: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Courts ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts and Administrative Practice - Administrative procedure - 1989 - 200 pages
...efficient and more satisfying to the parties involved. We seek, as Abraham Lincoln succinctly put it, to "Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to...lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough." Some doubters have also raised concerns that resolving many disputes...
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Alternative Dispute Resolution Use by Federal Agencies: Hearing Before the ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations - Administrative procedure - 1989 - 142 pages
...We seek, at Abraham Lincoln succinctly put it, to •Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbor: to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them...lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. "* ADR processes, I should note, are now being used at the state...
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Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings Vol. 1 1832-1858 (LOA #45)

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...
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Administrative Dispute Resolution Act of 1989: Hearing Before the ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management - Administrative procedure - 1990 - 336 pages
...efficient and more satisfying to the parties involved. We seek, as Abraham Lincoln succinctly put it, to "Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to...lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough."6 ADR processes, I should note, are now being used at the state...
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The Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990 and the Judicial Improvements ..., Volume 4

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...
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Arbitration of Sales and Service Contract Disputes: Hearing Before the ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Economic and Commercial Law - Law - 1992 - 114 pages
...COUNSEL FOR NCR CORP., IN OPPOSITION TO HR 3122 A respected attorney once admonished other lawyers as follows: Discourage litigation. Persuade your'...lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. The lawyer who gave this advice was Abraham Lincoln and although...
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Arbitration of Sales and Service Contract Disputes: Hearing Before the ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Economic and Commercial Law - Law - 1992 - 120 pages
...NCR CORP., IN OPPOSITION TO HR 3122 A respected attorney once admonished other lawyers as followsi Discourage litigation. Persuade your' neighbors to...lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. The lawyer who gave this advice was Abraham Lincoln and although...
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Air and Space Law: De Lege Ferenda : Essays in Honour of Henri A. Wassenbergh

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...
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Rights Talk: The Impoverishment Of Political Discourse

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...
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Health Care Reform: Issues relating to medical malpractice, May 20, 1993

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Health - Health care reform - 1993 - 786 pages
...ones, and the system encourages sleek ones to play games with the lawyers. Abraham Lincoln once said, 'Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to...you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner If often the real loser in fees, expenses, and waste of time." He was a good Republican with moral...
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