Family,
Law Practice
Sep. 5, 2023
Litigation is not a substitute for rule of law, or the only end game
While litigation serves a very important purpose in our society, it is a process choice for dispute resolution. It is by no means the only such process choice.
Mark B. Baer
Mark works as a mediator and conflict resolution consultant and teaches a course on implicit bias.
Does the following statement appear accurate to you?
“Litigation is our society’s substitute for violence as a mode of dispute resolution.”
The comment was made by an employment and labor attorney on the listserv for Small-Firms Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association on May 13, 2019.
If nothing about that comment seems inaccurate and problematic to you, I suggest that yo...
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