Non-Combative Dispute Resolution Speech Outline

Anecdote #1 – Twin Sisters

Anecdote #2 – Concrete Pad

Mending Wall by Robert Frost  – Mutual Recognition and Acquiescence

Elements of Adverse Possession

  • Open & Notorious
  • Hostile & Exclusive
  • Continuous for Statutory Period (of 10 years per RCW 4.16.020)

Problems with Court:

  • Costs Prohibitively Expensive – An Access to

In his 2008 book titled The End of Lawyers? Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services, futurist Richard Susskind in no less than two places speaks of a future in which legal consumers benefit from ‘a fence at the top of the cliff, instead of an ambulance at the bottom of it.’ 

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