 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...  The Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln - Page 40by Abraham Lincoln - 1908 - 117 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Julius Henry Cohen - 1918 - 368 pages
...the conduct of the Bar, appears this quotation from Lincoln: "Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out...lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man." Recently the lawyers of the State of New York have taken this injunction very much to heart. The Committee... | |
 | American Bar Association - 1919 - 806 pages
...true of the Bench and of the Bar."— EDWARD G. RYAN. " Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighhors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them...peacemaker, the lawyer has a superior opportunity of heing a good man. Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely he found than one who does this.... | |
 | Simeon Eben Baldwin - 1919 - 216 pages
...keep their clients out of court when they could. " Discourage litigation," he said. " Persuade 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 a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1920 - 362 pages
...from the drudgery of the law, his case is a failure in advance. 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 peace-maker the lawyer has a superior opportunity... | |
 | American Bar Association - 1920 - 852 pages
...equally true of the Bench and of the Bar."—EDWARD G. RYAN. " 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 waate of time. As a peacemaker, the lawyer has a superior opportunity... | |
 | Thomas Conyngton - 1920 - 472 pages
...Association uses it as an introduction to its Canons of Ethics : Discourage litigation. Persuade 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 a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior... | |
 | California. Commission of Immigration and Housing, 1913-1927 - 1920 - 64 pages
...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... | |
 | 1917 - 818 pages
...Made Easy—Iowa Bill 26 Act to Provide for Conciliation 27 Discourage litigation... Persuade 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 a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior... | |
 | Edgar Jacob Lauer, Victor House - 1921 - 488 pages
...if indeed it be a solution at all. Abraham Lincoln's advice, "Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out...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
...as a preface to the American Bar Association canon of ethics: 'Discourage litigation. Persuade 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 a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior... | |
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