Alternative Dispute Resolution
Aug. 4, 2017
Floccinaucinihilipilification
No, that’s not a typo; it’s a word that means “the act or habit of estimating something as worthless.” Reminds me of mediation.
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I must be uneducated. All these years, through hundreds and hundreds of mediations where I listened to lawyers and their clients belittle the opposing party’s facts, legal analysis, credibility and evidence, I never knew that there’s actually a word that describes that exact process: “floccinaucinihilipilification.” Defined as: the act or habit of estimating something as worthless. Also apparently the lo...
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