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... Abraham Lincoln and His Books - Página 50por William Eleazar Barton - 1920 - 108 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Nathaniel Wright Stephenson - 1922 - 512 páginas
...can't come ; my hands are dirty and I came over to clean them.' "" "Discourage litigation," he wrote. "Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you...fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker, lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough."12 He held... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1922 - 600 páginas
...matters, if possible, and to avoid a suit. In a few notes for a law lecture prepared about 1850, he says: "Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to...compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how 10 the nominal winner is often a real loser — in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1922 - 600 páginas
...matters, if possible, and to avoid a suit. In a few notes for a law lecture prepared about 1850, he says: "Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to...compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how 10 the nominal winner is often a real loser — in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker... | |
 | American Bar Association - 1923 - 1086 páginas
...performed, is the lawyer's glory. This is equally true of the Bench and of the Bar." — EDWARD G. RYAN. " Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to...peacemaker, the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a gbod man. Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this. Who can... | |
 | Academy of Political Science (U.S.) - 1924 - 820 páginas
...it has already adopted as a preface to its Canons of Ethics the following words of Abraham Lincoln : Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to...lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. APPENDIX THE SEMI-ANNUAL MEETING (FORTY-THIRD YEAR) OF THE ACADEMY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, NEW YORK CITY,... | |
 | 1924 - 304 páginas
...work is done have adopted as a sort of motto the words of Abraham Lincoln on the practice of the law : "Discourage litigation * * * Persuade your neighbors...Point out to them how the nominal winner is often the real loser * * * in fees, expenses and waste of time." We come now to consider the scope of the... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1924 - 456 páginas
...that a lawyer should persuade his neighbors to compromise whenever it was possible, pointing out how a nominal winner is often a real loser — "in fees, expenses and waste of time." There could not be a worse man, he said, than one who stirred up litigation. One can fairly ask how... | |
 | State Bar Association of North Dakota - 1909 - 236 páginas
...performed, is the lawyer's glory. This is equally true of the bench and of the bar." —Edward G. Ryan. "Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to...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 supreior opportunity... | |
 | Carl Frederick Taeusch - 1926 - 392 páginas
...baseless litigation.68 In general, Lincoln's advice still stands as the high-water mark of legal ethics: "Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to...lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this. Who can be more... | |
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