Point of View: How attorneys (and mediators) see the legal system (from the comments to the last post):

....the legal system in the way my trial practice professor had explained it to me more than a quarter century before -- that trial isn't about finding the truth or doing justice. It's just one of the ways to resolve a dispute. And mediation is its alternative.

I've always thought of our justice system as a way to get the truth of a matter. And I'm sure most of us think of it as a means for justice. How else to explain all those activist lawsuits? There must be some lawyers who see at as a sword of justice rather than just dispute resolution, no?