Non-Violent advocacy is about relationship and sensitivity, two terms not normally associated with a legal fight. But I’ve been determined to find peace within, and the years of courtroom drama have taught me that responding with anger, or a counter-attack, creates more damage and brakes the part of my heart that remembers we are all interconnected. It is from that understanding that conflict is more easily resolved and durable agreements help the parties with closure.

The law as a “battle” distances us from what I would learn to be our ubuntu nature.  Just as lawyers are  prone to self-perpetuate the war machine of litigation,  the healing messages I’ve witnessed and experienced around the world motivate me to not only be the best lawyer I can be, but to strive to be the best human being. Non-violent advocacy is a choice and it empowers myself and my clients. Through the notion of satyagraha, which means truth force and non-violence, what Gandhi called the “weapon of the strong,” we use any litigation as an opportunity to step out of our patterns and boxes and relearn what it means to be human.