Originally from Dispute Resolution Journal

One major key to unclogging the courts is to integrate the concept of mediation into the way American society resolves its civil, business disputes. This requires a radical change in the way outside counsel, particularly litigators, assess cases and advise clients. This also will necessitate reforms to legal curricula as a vital way to change the approach used by the legal system to dispute resolution. If mediation and other nonadversarial methods of dispute resolution are to be integrated into our society, these concepts must similarly be integrated into the basic training for attorneys.