Litigation
Cal. Litig. 2015, Volume 28, Number 1
Content
- A Fond Vaarwel...
- A Path to Writeousness: What the Seven Deadly Sins Might Teach Us About Written Advocacy
- Adr Update: Dealing with Ab 2617
- Be Prepared: Your Week in Legal London Jurisdiction is no bar - the English barrister is abroad
- Editor's Foreword Class Without Ostentation
- Employers Take Note: the U.S. Supreme Court Has Entered the Digital Age
- Forfeiture at the Pleading Stage: Ask Permission First, Don't Apologize Later
- "I Learned About Litigating from That" Adapt and Take Advantage of Opportunities
- Litigation Section Executive Committee Past Chairs
- Masthead
- McDermott On Demand: Pass the Scalpel, Please
- Past Editors-in-Chief
- Table of Contents
- The Disentitlement Doctrine: a Trap for Unwary Judgment Debtors in Civil Appeals
- The Fine Line Between Protected Demand Letters and Extortion
- The Litigator's Must-Know Lexicon of Idioms Used by Young Business Professionals
- Trial Lawyers Hall of Fame: Being a Trial Lawyer
- Reclaiming Our Noble Profession: Civility in the Practice of Law
Reclaiming Our Noble Profession: Civility in the Practice of Law
By Michael D. Stein
Michael D. Stein
Civility in modern life is on the decline. Dr. Pier Forni of Johns Hopkins University, author of The Civility Solution: What to Do When People Are Rude, observes, "In today’s America, incivility is on prominent display: in the schools, where bullying is pervasive; in the workplace, where an increasing number are more stressed out by coworkers than their jobs; on the roads, where road rage maims and kills; in politics, where strident intolerance takes the place of earnest dialogue; and on the web, where many check their inhibitions at the digital door."
The problem is no stranger to the legal profession. Consider the following snippet from an e-mail war between opposing counsel (names changed to protect the foolish) which resulted in both participants being disciplined: