While the cause and reasons for the undesired increase in incivility plaguing the legal profession are issues for debate, it is clear that the tide continues to rise both in the general population and within the legal profession.

An April 2016 survey conducted by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found 75 percent of Americans think manners and behavior have deteriorated in the United States over the past several decades.

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