What plan does SPIDEL have to encourage Lawyers to explore alternative sources of income outside core litigation?
Lawyers respond to the need and interest of their clients. There is an assumption generally in the polity, which says that you only need a lawyer when there is a problem but that is not correct. In any relationship or transaction you get into that has the potential to create a dispute, you need a lawyer from the beginning. You want to buy a car, you want to buy a piece of land or you want to get married. In some developed countries, they enter into what they called pre-mutual agreement. Before you get married, you sit down, discuss and agree on what should be done if the marriage did not work. In other words, even though love is at the heart of the relationship, people are still looking at the legal implications on what they are getting into. So, the point I am trying to make is that lawyers respond to the needs of their client. But certainly as you rightly observed, money is not only to be made from litigation. You can make money from alternative dispute resolution, which is picking u
