{"product_id":"opinions-essays-on-lawyering-litigation-and-arbitration-the-placebo-effect-chutzpah-and-related-matters-9781530024469","title":"Opinions: Essays on Lawyering, Litigation and Arbitration, the Placebo Effect, Chutzpah, and Related Matters","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Barry Goldman\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\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","brand":"Createspace Independent Publishing Platform","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45496870502551,"sku":"9781530024469","price":1826.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781530024469.webp?v=1767154023","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/opinions-essays-on-lawyering-litigation-and-arbitration-the-placebo-effect-chutzpah-and-related-matters-9781530024469","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}