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Regulation is a occupation that, in contrast to some others, operates frequently underneath the pressure of disagreement. Medical doctors cooperate and coordinate to cope with sufferers. Engineers work collectively to construct a bridge. However litigants and their attorneys are pitted towards each other on reverse sides. That doesn’t sound like an commercial for regulation college, that sounds a bit of bleak.
— Justice Amy Coney Barrett, in feedback given in the course of the Seventh Circuit Judicial Convention, the place she went on to say that attorneys learn to argue “with out letting it devour relationships,” and that she’s “grateful to the best way our bar conducts itself in that regard, as a result of that’s what allows the judicial system to work nicely, that collegiality.”
Staci Zaretsky is the managing editor of Above the Regulation, the place she’s labored since 2011. She’d love to listen to from you, so please be happy to e-mail her with any suggestions, questions, feedback, or critiques. You may observe her on Bluesky, X/Twitter, and Threads, or join together with her on LinkedIn.
