Neil Steinberg's column makes a good point today

OK, so I'm taking the link to the column (and this picture) from Steinberg's blog -- have you tried using the Sun-Times' website lately? I read the column in the paper, on the train. Real newspapers never lose signal in the subway.

Anyway, Steinberg writes about his recent experience serving on a jury in a rear-end subro case. The jury wound up deadlocked (5-1 in favor of plaintiff) and jury foreman Steinberg wasn't pleased with that aspect of the experience. He concludes, however,

[I]t's a flawed system—the guy was negligent— but one person can derail the whole thing. Still, it works, sort of. Everyone was exceedingly polite, and thanked us for us doing our civic duty. Compared to the bloody chaos in most of the world, our justice system is a gift.

Our justice system is flawed -- and as lawyers we can't help sometimes but get focused on the problems that we see in our varying practices. But we need to keep in mind, and to keep proclaiming to the public, the larger, and far more important, point, that Mr. Steinberg makes this morning: "Compared to the bloody chaos in most of the world, our justice system is a gift."