Gandhi: The World's Worst Divorce Lawyer

From Gandhi's autobiography, a whole new way to look at the law business.

He was called in to consult on a civil case involving two businessmen. Gandhi convinced both sides to agree to arbitration, and then persuaded the winner to take his payments in installments, thus saving the losing side from bankruptcy.

"[Both sides] were happy over the result, and both rose in the public estimation. My joy was boundless. I had learnt the true practice of law. I had learnt to find out the better side of human nature and to enter men's hearts. I realized that the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the twenty years of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby--not even money, certainly not my soul."