{"id":1155,"date":"2012-11-21T14:21:18","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T18:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businessconflictmanagement.com\/blog\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2012-11-21T14:21:18","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T18:21:18","slug":"lincolns-lessons-for-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.businessconflictmanagement.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/lincolns-lessons-for-lawyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln&#039;s Lessons for Lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The interest in Abraham Lincoln sparked by the recent release of Spielberg&#8217;s film prompts a reminder of Tom Stipanowich&#8217;s recent article, in the ABA&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Dispute Resolution<\/em> magazine, on Lincoln as a counsellor and negotiator.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lincoln&#8217;s oft-quoted advice, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/showcase.netins.net\/web\/creative\/lincoln\/speeches\/lawlect.htm\" target=\"_self\">discourage litigation<\/a>,&#8221; becomes far more than an adage when one considers\u00a0real-life instances of his actually doing so, prompted solely by his concern for the welfare of his clients.\u00a0 Stipanowich demonstrates that Lincoln urged negotiated settlement for no reason other than to obtain the best results for his clients.<\/p>\n<p>Stipanowich continues to work on a larger project addressing this topic.\u00a0 In the meanwhile, his shorter article may be downloaded <a href=\"http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=1759598\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-B4Fg66uRRMc\/T_bSLN5gSKI\/AAAAAAAAAg8\/tTTAXaNsZmM\/s1600\/negotiator1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-B4Fg66uRRMc\/T_bSLN5gSKI\/AAAAAAAAAg8\/tTTAXaNsZmM\/s1600\/negotiator1.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"508\" height=\"222\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A timely reminder of Tom Stipanowich&#8217;s recent article on Abraham Lincoln as negotiator and dispute manager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,34],"tags":[10,38,31],"class_list":["post-1155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-negotiation","category-united-states","tag-conflict-management","tag-lawyers","tag-negotiation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.businessconflictmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.businessconflictmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.businessconflictmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.businessconflictmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.businessconflictmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.businessconflictmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.businessconflictmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.businessconflictmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.businessconflictmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}