"As a peace-maker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good person. There will still be business enough."

— Abraham Lincoln,
'Notes on the Practice of Law', 1850

• Litigation lawyer turned mediator - for I have seen too many cases that could have had much better outcome, if genuinely tried for out of court resolution. People were losing health, ruining relationship and wasting fortunes when mediation could have saved it all, turning war into peace.
  
  
• Specialisation in amicable settlements has always been a crown-piece of my law practice. I have been doing it for years through the limitations and mistrust that often hits any attorney urging for amicable settlement between conflicting parties. So, my turn into mediation was natural, it is a bonanza of effectiveness that comes from neutrality of the role. And it is more than simply professional development, it is my passion for peace.
  
  
• Once upon a time and for quite a while I was fiercely engaged into oppositional human rights politics full of principled conflicts, so the value of fighting the good fight is well known to me. Mediation is not an obstacle to anything good, it's rather great aid to avoid fighting for no reason and misconception that happens much more often than it seems.

"My joy was boundless. I had learnt the true practice of law. I had learnt to find out the better side of human nature and enter men's hearts. I realised that the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the 20 years of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby, not even money, certainly not my soul."

— Mahatma Ghandhi,
'An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth', 1927