Alternative Dispute Resolution Quotes

You can enforce a contract in China, but not through the legal route. You have to put pressure on in various ways.

I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means of coercing injustice more gratifying to our nature than a waste of the blood of thousands and of the labor of millions of our fellow creatures?

If I settle a case out of court, it's because I love the person.

The Governor's Office is going to get out of the litigation business.

The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword.

Asking the legal system to resolve divorce is like asking a boxing coach to be our marriage counselor.

I consider violence an uneconomical way of attaining an end. There are always better substitutes, though they may sometimes be a little less direct.

The lawyers who really begin to address the problems of their clients address them without recourse to our courts, although that recourse is absolutely essential in providing leverage.

I've never sued anybody, though there have been one or two occasions I've wanted to strangle one or two people.

All wars would end immediately if the various chiefs of state dropped a little LSD.

How is justice served if the victim and the accused are working together to make it all go away? Somebody please explain that to me.

The civil process has become too expensive, time-consuming, and contentious, inhibiting effective access to the courts.

300 million Americans every day decide to settle their disputes in courts of law rather than settle them in the streets with sticks and stones.

We have far more plea bargains in our system than we do trials.

International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smoldering one

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Those who were not taught to fight, have naturally inclined in favor of any other mode of settling differences rather than that of fighting.

The minute that you go to arbitration, it's 100% confidential, so nobody ever hears about it.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.

Let's ask ourselves: Does America really need 70 percent of the world's lawyers? Is it healthy for our economy to have 18 million new lawsuits coursing through the system annually? Is it right that people with disputes come up against staggering expense and delay?.

Lying under oath, and encouraging lies under oath, does go to the very heart and soul of what courts do. If we say we don't care, let's forget about courts, and we'll just have other ways of figuring out how to handle disputes.

I do not believe in lawyers, in that mode of attacking or defending a man, because you descend to meet the judge on his own ground, and, in cases of the highest importance, it is of no consequence whether a man breaks a human law or not. Let lawyers decide trivial cases.

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.

If I were able to do something unilaterally, I would probably institute a new federal rule that said all cases worth less than $500,000 would be tried without any discovery.