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Maintaining calm in the eye of the storm.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

  Some people seek calm by avoiding conflict. I seek to use calm to harmonize conflict to the advantage of me and my client. By applying the principles of t'ai chi to my law practice, I do my best neither to chase an opponent's power nor to hide from it, but to use my opponent's power and energy to the best of my advantage, by doing my best to anticipate the opponent's strategy and attack, to give the opponent nothing to push against, to find the opponent's weaknesses, and to neutralize the opponent.  Related to this approach of neither chasing nor hiding from an opponent, t'ai chi master Benjamin Pang Jeng Lo (pictured here, second from the top) once said: "Normally we think that if [our opponent] has 100 pounds of force or power, I better have 150...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on June 12, 2008 (boomark / email).