Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day.
Law is a profession that, unlike some others, operates continually under the strain of disagreement. Doctors cooperate and coordinate to deal with patients. Engineers work together to build a bridge. But litigants and their lawyers are pitted against one another on opposite sides. That doesn’t sound like an advertisement for law school, that sounds a little bleak.
— Justice Amy Coney Barrett, in comments given during the Seventh Circuit Judicial Conference, where she went on to say that lawyers learn how to argue “without letting it consume relationships,” and that she’s “grateful to the way our bar conducts itself in that regard, because that is what enables the judicial system to work well, that collegiality.”
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