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Abraham Lincoln advised lawyers to discourage litigation. “As a peacemaker, the lawyer has a superior opportunity of becoming a good man. There will always be enough business. Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this. Who can be more nearly a fiend than he who habitually overhauls the register of deeds in search of defects in titles, whereon to stir up strife and put money in his pocket? A moral tone ought to be infused into the profession which should drive such men out of it.”
Lincoln practiced what he preached. A farmer who got into a boundary dispute with a neighbour once went to Lincoln to secure his services. But Lincoln told him; “Now, if you go on with this , it will cost both of your farms, and will entail an enmity that will last for generations and perhaps lead to murder. The other man has just been here to engage me. Now, I want you two to sit down in my office while i am gone to lunch and talk it over, and try to settle it. And, to secure you from and interruption, i will lock the door.’ As the farmer told it, Lincoln did not return for the rest of the afternoon, and “we two men, finding ourselves shut up together, began to laugh. This put us in good humour, and by the time Mr. Lincoln returned, the matter was settled.”
Courtesy:- Lawyers Update, August’ 05
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