Sentences with phrase «adversarial approach to the problem»

Too many firms would have taken an adversarial approach to the problem well before it was solved.

Not exact matches

She notes that lawyers are basically problem solvers and that while being able to answer quickly is a useful skill, «students who function cooperatively... are more likely to arrive at the optimal solution... than are those who approach problems in a competitive, adversarial manner.

Instead, many state and local officials have been convinced by self - interested personal injury lawyers to take an adversarial approach, inviting additional problems that neither officials nor their constituents need.

The authors suggest that many of the metaphors for approaching problems in narrative therapy have tended to foster an adversarial or aggressive relationship between problems and persons.

Any dispute resolution process for families in conflict that adopts a problem - solving approach (such as divorce mediation and collaborative divorce), as opposed to an adversarial, competitive approach like litigation, understands that people (especially people who are or were emotionally connected to one another) do not negotiate solely from a place of intellectual rationalism.

In a Collaborative Divorce, family law attorneys work with divorce coaches and financial specialists to help couples reach a solution for their family in a respectful, fair way withe a problem solving approach rather than an adversarial approach.