Year: 2008

The value of Sandy and Rob’s house is falling. The prospect of acquiring one let alone two alternative homes is...

I will always be indebted to Dan Dana for introducing the concept of the manager as the mediator to me....

MAKE SURE YOU HAVE REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS: In court, the judge will never really know what is going on in your...

As this is my last blog for the year, I want to end 2008 on a light and happy note...

I've directed my readers to Adir Waldman's fine book Arbitrating Armed Conflict before.  Now that there is pitched battle in...

I'd stop flogging this dead horse if I didn't have to weekly convince litigants of their own enduring human tendency...

From John DeGroote's Settlement Perspectives The fiscal year ends in just two weeks, and for some reason your client’s auditors...

From the Real Divorce Mediation Blog of Nancy Hudgins and Debra Synovec Fill your stocking by doing tax planning! Yes,...

As I head out to mediate an alleged Ponzi scheme purportedly perpetrated by one member of the Adath Israel Shul/*...

Not only does Scotland vie to become a global, efficient ADR center attracting domestic and international businesses, but it also...

Impartiality is one of the more commonly recognised aspects of the role of the Mediator. This does not mean that...

1 Mediocre and Extreme Issues It is often of concern for individuals involved in the training and practise of mediation...

Mediation forces all attorneys to seriously focus only on settlement Too often attorney settlement discussions are merely a short exchange...

It is the function of creative men to perceive the relations between thoughts, or things, or forms of expression that...

We were talking about fairness over pizza with our neighbor last night.  Tony was pretty teed off at the unions,...

From the Blog of Phyllis G. Pollack.        This week’s blog returns to a familiar theme: Fairness. Why? I am a...

From the Real Divorce Mediation Blog of Nancy Hudgins and Debra Synovec Holidays can be a sad and stressful time...

Before any client hires you, they’re asking themselves two critical questions: Is mediation (substitute other conflict resolution services you offer...

From Arnold W. Zeman's blogBarry Goldman is sad about the state of ADR.  He quotes with disapproval from Bowling and...

From Stephanie West Allen's blog on Neuroscience and conflict resolution. I watched a wonderful video. It is of a scientist...

It was a hot Friday afternoon in Miami, and everyone but the mediator had a flight to catch. The lawyers...

I delivered a Continuing Education Lecture this week on "The Ethics of Negotiation". As always, I learned a lot from...

From the First Mediation Blog of Jeff Krivis and Mariam Zadeh. Welcome to our first Improvisational Negotiation podcast. This month’s...

In the series of private and fictitious conversations among presidents and among state and non-state leaders that see each other...

The physicist Wolfgang Pauli…would sometimes exclaim "wrong" (falsch) or "completely wrong" (ganz falsch) when he disagreed with someone. Near the...

From Arnold W. Zeman's blogAfter setting out and linking to my top ten reasons for being hired, Geoff Sharp of...

From the Blog of Phyllis G. Pollack.        To prepare for mediation, many parties review the strengths and weaknesses of...

From John DeGroote's Settlement Perspectives A sample Mediation Mind Map, available in .pdf format here. You’ve been there before. You’ve...

Aggressive post title to be sure, to be sure - it's just that I get asked all the time -...

Video below is part I of an interview on negotiation challenges, strategies and tactics for women with Vicki Flaugher, founder...