Arbitration, Mediation Provide Alternatives

There are good reasons for avoiding courts. Courts are only one resource for resolving disputes. There are other mechanisms available that are less formal and often preferable. Alternative dispute resolution, or ADR, is the term used to describe non-judicial methods...

Don’t Pass Judgment on Attorneys of Today Without All the Facts

Let’s establish a point of agreement. As a group, lawyers generally can be expected to serve their own interests. This does not distinguish lawyers from any other group. The same can be said for insurance companies, government agencies, labor unions, doctors,...

Principal Overshadows Principle

All lawyers know the expression “for every wrong, there is a remedy.” From the first day of law school, students are taught that our legal system accommodates all those with a just claim. Lawyers also know that although the expression may be correct...

Bad Apples Taint Personal Injury Lawyers’ Ranks

In the recent past, Americans have been subjected to the spectacle of some of our lawyers wandering the globe in search of injured accident victims on whose behalf lawsuits can be filed. Most Americans were justifiably offended by news stories of accident injury...