In Act 5, Scene 1 of Shakespeare's Hamlet, Hamlet and his friend Horatio walk through a cemetery where two men are digging a grave. Hamlet asks the gravediggers about one of the skulls uncovered during the digging, and the gravediggers tell him it is the skull of the king's jester, Yorick. As he holds Yorick's skull in his hands, Hamlet laments, "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times." Just as Hamlet lamented the death of his beloved Yorick, lawyers must now lament the death of civility in the practice of law. But must we stand idly by as we lament civility's death, or is there something we can do to revive civility as it gasps its last breaths?