Incivility

The Civility Crisis

Unless you’ve spent the last twenty years meditating alone in a cave atop a Tibetan mountain, you’re aware of the civility crisis among lawyers. In his article Free Speech, Civility and Harassment in the February 1998 issue of Bench & Bar of Minnesota, Edward J. Cleary said: “There does seem to be a consensus among members of the judiciary and the legal community that incivility is rampant; that previously unheard of and unacceptable speech and acts occur with frequency.”