"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 - healers of conflicts. Doctors, in spite of
astronomical medical costs, still retain a high degree of
public confidence because they are perceived as healers.
Should lawyers not be healers? Healers, not warriors?
Healers, not procurers? Healers not hired guns?"
Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger
"State of the Judiciary" Address to the American Bar
Association,1984
