In the vast majority of cases, clients have a greater likelihood of making a devastating settlement decision in a mediation session than watching their attorney conduct a devastating cross-examination at trial. - Randall Kiser
Some of the sharpest men in argument are notoriously unsound in judgment. I should not trust the counsel of a smart debater, any more than that of a good chess-player. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
The appropriateness of lawyers' probability judgments has important implications...
