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32 IDEA 155 (1991-1992)
The Role of the Scientifically and Technologically Literate Attorney in the Application of Preventive Law to Low Entropy Corporate Decision Making and Long-Range Planning

handle is hein.journals/idea32 and id is 165 raw text is: THE ROLE OF THE SCIENTIFICALLY AND TECHNOLOGICALLY LITERATE ATTORNEY IN THE APPLICATION OF PREVENTIVE LAW TO LOW ENTROPY CORPORATE DECISION MAKING AND LONG-RANGE PLANNING BY JOHN H. ROBERTS* A PARADIGM FOR THE APPLICATION OF PREVENTIVE LAW TO CORPORATE DECISION MAKING AND LONG-RANGE PLANNING BASED ON CONSIDERATION OF ENTROPY The use of preventive law has become an increasingly useful and ef- fective method for coping with a wide array of potentially long-term legal liabilities. This is especially true in the corporate setting. Perhaps this can be viewed as a logical and necessary step in the evolution of the legal system. If the various stages in a generalized scheme of the dispute resolution process are examined, these stages can be placed, roughly in order of occurrence, on a scale of increasing disorder.1 Although it is well known in the physical sciences that the natural tendency of spontaneously occurring events is to take place so that entropy (chaos, disorder) increases, this has not been demonstrated to be necessarily so for social or legal phenomena. However, in this model it is useful to consider the law of the jungle and the injustice of an unremedied wrong as being characterized by higher states of legal entropy (more disorder) than the lowest state of legal entropy, the ordered state dominated by * B.A. Grinnell College; M.S. Tufts University; PhD.The University of Texas at Austin; Juris Doctor, Franklin Pierce Law Center 1989; Patent Department, The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, Michigan. The ideas expressed herein are those of the author, not Dow Chemical. 1 Belknap, The Purposes and Forms of Preventive Law: An Analytic Framework for Legal Relationships (Part One), 3 Preventive L. Rep. 155, (June, 1985); (Part Two), 3 Preventive L. Rep. 2 (Aug. 1985).

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