Positive/forwardlookingopportunity on back of a tragic/negative past to think about what it means to be a legal professional
Commemoration Fund – Fund to recognize the event
Litigation and settlement process has not reflected well on the justice system as a whole, process condemned as culturally disconnected, too slow, too expensive, arbitrary, inadequate, disrespectful, humiliating, and unfeeling at each level
Litigation strategies: often harsh, intrusive, culturally insensitive, costly simple animating force is the motivation to win (at expense of healing process?)
In this context, winning means getting the best result for a client in terms of avoiding a finding of liability, avoiding the need to take responsibility, and avoiding the need to pay compensation.
Healing, restoring, and apologizing do not typically factor into a winning strategy that is defined in terms of successful adversarialism
Evidentiary and other procedural challenges and strategies: applicability of social science evidence, credibility of evidence in the context of individual claimants, relying on strict and narrow definitions of key terms
