| California. Commission of Immigration and Housing, 1913-1927 - California - 1920 - 64 pages
...and see if it can not be peacefully adjusted. Abraham Lincoln said : "Discourage litigation. Pursuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often the real loser — in fees, expenses and waste of time. ' ' If someone does wrong to you, and you do... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1921 - 292 pages
...speaking, shall claim an exemption from the drudgery of the law, his case is a failure in advance. Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to...lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than... | |
| Edgar Jacob Lauer, Victor House - Landlord and tenant - 1921 - 488 pages
...only method of solving the trouble — if indeed it be a solution at all. Abraham Lincoln's advice, "Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to...real loser — in fees, expenses and waste of time," is overlooked, if not wholly forgotten. It would seem as though with a little additional consideration... | |
| 1921 - 600 pages
...been deemed proper enough to be used as a preface to the American Bar Association canon of ethics: 'Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to...Point out to them how the nominal winner is often the real loser — in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior... | |
| 1921 - 776 pages
...arbitration. Abraham Lincoln wisely said: "Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise when you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often the real loser — in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker, the lawyer has a superior... | |
| Jules L. Coleman - Law - 1988 - 420 pages
...Abraham Lincoln favored settlements. He addressed the following remarks to a group of young attorneys: "Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to...peacemaker, the lawyer has a superior opportunity for good. There will still be business enough" (quoted in an editorial by Gary T. Johnson, Chicago... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business - Insurance, Liability - 1988 - 300 pages
...your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often the real loser in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As...lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business - Insurance, Liability - 1988 - 304 pages
...law school class over 100 years ago. He said at that time, and I think it is still appropriate today: Discourage litigation, persuade your neighbors to...Point out to them how the nominal winner is often the real loser in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker, the lawyer has a superior opportunity... | |
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