Preventing Litigation

Foreword

My father, Louis M. Brown, was more importantly the father of Preventive Law. He wrote extensively on Preventive Law, from his first books, Preventive Law and How to Negotiate a Successful Contract to his last, Lawyering Through Life. He invented, proselytized, taught, and breathed Preventive Law. He wrote for law reviews, bar journals, newspapers, and even airline magazines. He taught Preventive Law at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law (USC) for over 20 years, but he also lectured whenever he could, at law schools around the country, in colleges, high schools, and at the dinner table.

Being a prophet is a lonely life. There were few disciples and a lot of doubters. The view that a lawyer’s job is to keep clients ...