Michael C. Kelley is a shareholder of Lawson Huck Gonzalez, PLLC and leads the firm’s Orlando office. He anchors the firm’s construction litigation practice and writes at Turris Fortis on faith, justice, and the practice of law.
Every lawyer knows the feeling of stepping into someone else’s chaos. Michael Kelley on why the rooms where lawyers work — the mediation table, the deposition, the boardroom — can be holy ground, and what that asks of the Christian lawyer.
If legal conflict is holy ground, how then should a Christian lawyer practice? Michael Kelley on the two errors to reject — passivity and domination — and on the difference between a lawful tool and a fleshly weapon.