We hold the mediation sessions in my office,
a non-lawyer type environment that has a couch, two comfortable leather chairs and a desk that faces the window.
My reference to 20 years as a bencher was simply to illustrate that I have seen a generational shift in attitudes caused by nothing other than a narrowing of the career - long practice
environment of a certain
type of bencher (I do not fault them for their human nature)-- similar to the generational shift that I confidently predict will happen to lawyers whose practice
environment would feature behemoth,
non-lawyer owners.