A Follow Up On The Price Of Mandating Civility In Litigation
The consequence of imposing civility rules could hamper an attorney’s representation of a client facing debt collection, eviction, or deportation.
The consequence of imposing civility rules could hamper an attorney’s representation of a client facing debt collection, eviction, or deportation.
If civility will play a bigger role in litigation, there should be some definitions on what constitutes uncivil behavior.
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What is gained by being offensive?
Why do calls for civility fall on deaf ears?
Practicing law is definitely not a bowl of cherries, but it certainly isn’t simply a bowl of dicks.
Even though we are representing different parties and opposing interests, we are all lawyers. We are the only ones who can change the way we treat one another.
Legal work isn’t slowing down, and the firms that win won’t be the ones working harder — they’ll be the ones working smarter.
We, as professionals, can do better.
It is no coincidence that the same figures who seek to enact gratuitously cruel policies or deny fundamental liberties are always the ones opining about a loss of 'civility.'
In the future, will civility even matter or will it be just a vestige of an earlier time and place?
Funny how civility only comes up when someone who is privileged suffers just once what others suffer every damn day.
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Our profession must return to the civility society expects us to exemplify.
'For every conversation you have, start out with respect.'
Rudeness, nasty emails and faxes (does anyone fax anymore?), snarky texts, whatever the written medium, society has lost its manners.
How did our profession become so nasty and uncivil in so many fundamental ways?
Whether you and he were kindred spirits or polar opposites, there will be more than enough time to use Justice Scalia's death for political reasons.