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PREFACE

I was walking down Market Street in Philadelphia when the idea of “agreements for results” first emerged. I had recently hired a highly touted guru to help me figure out my next career move. We were trying to take my experience and articulate an innovative service offering a wise, trustworthy, skillful “recovering” lawyer might provide. That was an important point on the odyssey that has been my quest for the past twenty-five years. I had been looking for the way to create cultures of agreement and resolution within all of our social institutions so that we can reduce needless and costly conflict. At that time my experience included:

  • New Jersey Deputy Attorney General
  • Ten years practicing law, including many civil and criminal trials ...

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