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In the face of all these failures, however, lawyers play ever more important roles. Less and less are they society's servants, more and more the masters of its machinery. That trend is not likely to be halted until clients insist on retaining greater control of the direction of their cases, until citizens give more thought to resolving disputes without plunging into the adversary process, and until voters stop insisting that every perceived wrong be countered with new law and move to reclaim some of the rule-making authority they have consigned to judges and bureaucrats by default. In the words of Robert McKay, director of the Aspen Institute's Program on Justice, Society and the Individual and former New York University Law School dean: "If war is too important to be left to the generals, surely justice is too important to be left to lawyers."