In Search of Blue-Sky

"The entire legal profession...lawyers, judges, law teachers...has become so mesmerized with the stimulation of the courtroom contest that we tend to forget that we ought to be healers of conflicts. Trials by adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood. Our system is too costly, too painful, too destructive, too inefficient for a truly civilized people." - Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Warren Burger, used in his 1984 State of the Judiciary ...