Charles Lamb Quotes

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

There was something special about watching a manager and umpire both convinced they were totally right, but knowing that one had to be wrong. As an ump, those moments made my job fun, and getting 'nose-to-nose' was part of my job description.

I have a different approach. I don't file lawsuits because I really don't care.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and dam it up.

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

Of course I've got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

I'm a hard headed lawyer.

Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

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 man. There will still be business enough.

A third party neutral, acceptable to both parties, can employ a number of effective mediation tools to help the parties resolve even the most intractable disputes or international conflicts. Unlike the arbitrator, the mediator does not decide, but can only lead the parties to understand how their mutual interests can be better met by an amicable settlement than by litigation or force of arms. .

Most lawyers aren't trial lawyers. Most lawyers, even trial lawyers, don't get their problems solved in a courtroom. We like to go to court. It seems heroic to go to court. We think we're the new, great advocates, better than anything we've seen on TV, and we come home exhilarated by having gone to court.

I'm a lawyer; I win arguments for a living.

I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.

Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.

I'm a mediator by training and inclination.

As a lawyer, I could engage in killer litigation with the best of them. It was war, after all.

I've always hated litigation, and I continue to hate it.

I don't want to crawl over the entrails of past disputes.

I'm not looking for a battle with anybody, neither the council nor our labor partners.

When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period.

You have to pick your battles on set.

Litigation solves everything.