Arbitration & Mediation

Not the Type of Alternative Dispute Resolution We Advocate!

By Christopher Annunziata

Two lawyers who apparently haven’t learned to use their “big boy” words resorted to slapping and hitting each other in an Oregon Courthouse lobby.  The details are fuzzy, but attorneys David Lawrence and Aaron Matusick began shouting at each other as they left landlord-tenant court.  Witnesses said that one attorney then slapped the other, who responded with a punch to the first lawyer’s forehead.

One of the local judges called both men into his chambers for “a talking-to.”  I wonder if he put the guys in time-out or asked one of them to go cut a switch.  My guess is that he threatened to reach under his robe and take his belt off.

Obviously, this isn’t the type of Alternative Dispute Resolution that my fellow bloggers and I advocate.

Full post as published by CKA Mediation and Arbitration Services Blog on April 04, 2008 (boomark / email).