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Dispute Resolution and Arbitration

2021

St. John's University School of Law

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Settlement Fever: Lawyers, Have You Updated Your Philosophical Map?, Elayne E. Greenberg Jan 2021

Settlement Fever: Lawyers, Have You Updated Your Philosophical Map?, Elayne E. Greenberg

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This column is the second in my three-part series about settlement fever. The focus of this column is on how settlement fever is incentivizing you, an ethical lawyer, to expand your legal mindset when you engage with your clients to help resolve their disputes. Have you updated your philosophical map lately?


Ethical Compass: Three Different Judicial Treatments For Settlement Fever, Elayne E. Greenberg Jan 2021

Ethical Compass: Three Different Judicial Treatments For Settlement Fever, Elayne E. Greenberg

Faculty Publications

(Excerpt)

This is the first of a three-part series that examines different aspects of the settlement fever that has stricken our justice system. What can we learn from judicial decisions about how individual judges assess the settlement means that lawyers, in consultation with their clients, have chosen to resolve their case?