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Commentary
Destroy the Other Side? Resist That Impulse
What happens when we “destroy” the other side? When we embarrass and humiliate them? Does it make us look good? Does it help people like the system?

By Randy Kessler | October 28, 2019 at 10:22 AM

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What are we as family law attorneys paid to do? To help our clients, right? However, a lot of us often see or are given a simultaneous directive to destroy the other side, and that is 100% wrong. As family law attorneys, we are so lucky to represent people who are by and large innocent and decent people who just have family issues that are common to many people, even to those who do not divorce. Do attorneys often feel a need to vindicate our clients by destroying the other side? Some may. My suggestion? Resist, resist, resist.

What happens when we “destroy” the other side? When we embarrass and humiliate them? Does it make us look good? Does it help people like the system? Does it benefit our client? Does it benefit the children? Does it benefit our reputation? I suggest the answer to all of these questions is no.

Perhaps a way to look at it would be as follows: Let’s say you are on high-rise building elevator which gets stuck. You start to panic and are concerned that you may never get out. There is one other person on the elevator. This person reassures you and keeps you calm. You strike up a conversation, and it makes the short delay tolerable. Then you realize that the person is the opposing party from a case years ago to whom you were very ugly in depositions or in trial. How would you feel?
That little example and thousands of others (you meet at a concert, or in line at a restaurant or anywhere else) should make us realize that our clients’ opponents are often decent people. Wouldn’t you like that person on the elevator to say to you, “I remember you; thank you for how you handled the situation, our family is doing well.”? That’s my hope for me and for all of us.

And it does not mean you cannot provide very zealous representation. To the contrary, there is power in courtesy. We are not the ones going through the divorce—they are. Both sides deserve our compassion. We should advocate for our client, but let’s not leave shrapnel for the family.

Randy Kessler founded Kessler & Solomiany. He has chaired the family law sections of the American Bar Association, the State Bar of Georgia and the Atlanta Bar Association.

What happens when we “destroy” the other side? When we embarrass and humiliate them? Does it make us look good? Does it help people like the system?