{"product_id":"opinions-essays-on-lawyering-litigation-and-arbitration-the-placebo-effect-chutzpah-and-related-matters-paperback","title":"Opinions: Essays on Lawyering, Litigation and Arbitration, the Placebo Effect, Chutzpah, and Related Matters - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBarry Goldman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eStuart M. Israel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOpinions-Essays on Lawyering, Litigation and Arbitration, the Placebo Effect, \u003c\/i\u003e Chutzpah\u003ci\u003e, and Related Matters\u003c\/i\u003e is insightful, informative, fun, and funny. \u003ci\u003eOpinions\u003c\/i\u003e collects succinct law-related observations by two long-time practitioners-one a lawyer, the other an arbitrator and mediator, and both sometime law school teachers. They share the sensibility of Mark Twain's words, appearing as the book's epigraph: \"To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler-and less trouble.\" \u003ci\u003eOpinions\u003c\/i\u003e is for lawyers, judges, mediators, arbitrators, negotiators, witnesses, and everyone else whose fortunes put them in the path of the legal profession. \u003ci\u003eOpinions\u003c\/i\u003e is for those contemplating legal careers, those who regret not going to law school, and those who regret going. \u003ci\u003eOpinions\u003c\/i\u003e is for those fascinated with-or repelled by-the machinery of dispute resolution, its lofty goals and its mundane idiosyncrasies. \u003ci\u003eOpinions\u003c\/i\u003e is for those who believe that words matter. \u003ci\u003eOpinions\u003c\/i\u003e is for those who appreciate Ambrose Bierce's definition of \u003ci\u003elitigation\u003c\/i\u003e \"A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.\" As eminent law professor and arbitrator Theodore J. St. Antoine writes in the foreword, \u003ci\u003eOpinions\u003c\/i\u003e authors Goldman and Israel have produced a \u003ci\u003eBramble Bush\u003c\/i\u003e for the 21st century, only \"much more accessible\" and \"funnier.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eStuart M. Israel is a labor lawyer. Barry Goldman is an arbitrator and mediator. Both are long-time practitioners, sometime law school teachers, and Fellows of The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, and Barry is a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators. Barry is the author of The Science of Settlement-Ideas for Negotiators (2008) and Stuart is the author of Taking and Defending Depositions (2004), both originally published by American Law Institute-American Bar Association.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 362\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.75 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 31, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50728081654066,"sku":"9781530024469","price":33.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0961\/1608\/0946\/files\/VslU-8_DT99781530024469.webp?v=1765551333","url":"https:\/\/deskinlawfirm.com\/products\/opinions-essays-on-lawyering-litigation-and-arbitration-the-placebo-effect-chutzpah-and-related-matters-paperback","provider":"DLF Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}