Ethics

[whoops. i posted before seeing that Rob has already called us out.]

It's been a great conference.  If there's any "problem," it's that there are too many interesting panels at overlapping times.  Brad, Rob, Renee, Alice, Steve and I are here, so LEF has made a good showing -- although admittedly I'm the only one not presenting.

I was just at a panel taking a dark (but realistic, imho) view of the coercive nature of litigation and ADR.  Under that account, offered by Geoffrey Hazard and Dana Irwin in an Aristotelian vein, because the gap between procedural truth and absolute truth is inevitable, the inability of legal ethics to foster absolute justice is to be expected rather than condemned.  It wasn't a defeatist view, but rather one that requires us to focus on process, procedure and related "inside the game" issues.

I'm now at a panel about ethical decision-making in context.