The growth of drug treatment courts in the United States represent a major shift in judicial process in this country from an adversarial process to a cooperative therapeutic process. It is unknown how the experiences of attorneys working in drug treatment court reflect possible post-conventional moral reasoning. This study provides an understanding of the cognitive affect on attorneys practicing a nontraditional, humanistic, and altruistic form of law, through a collection of personal reflections from attorneys working in drug courts in North Carolina. Colby and Kohlberg's (1987) Measurement of Moral Judgment was employed to examine the participating attorneys' existing stages of moral development. An additional phenomenological examination employing in-depth interviews and the development of a universal textural-structural description provides an understanding of the essences of the experiences of attorneys who are working as members of a drug treatment court team.