Category: Legislation

The next two years present Scotland and the rest of the UK with a unique opportunity. How we conduct the...

On Thursday, February 23, 2012, Assembly Member Wagner introduced AB 2025 before the Californai State Legislature. The proposal seeks to...

I recently had the opportunity to meet with a divorced couple and their four children. The children ranged in age...

Dispute Settlement Counsel by Michael Zeytoonian. As a mediator and a collaborative lawyer, I often get asked: “What is the...

Ryan Lizza's article, "The Obama Memos," in this week's New Yorker, contains some inside information explaining how candidate Obama's promises...

Workplace Video 3 minute educational video showing the value of mediation for solving disputes created for the American Bar Association...

What’s your dispute worth – to you and to the other side? It’s hard to imagine settling without knowing the...

Baltimore Injury Lawyer Blog by John BrattIn Part I, I talked about how useful a set of portable office supplies...

One of the touted benefits of ADR is that it allows parties to design their own dispute resolution process specially...

From the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution BlogOver seventy years ago, the psychologist Kurt Lewin and his colleagues...

From the blog og Phyllis Pollack The other week I attended the California State Bar Conference. In an early Sunday...

Disputing Blog by Karl Bayer, Victoria VanBuren, and Holly Hayes As readers may already know, litigation surrounding the “Deep Water...

I knew Obama's Middle East speech last Thursday was a bombshell when my 19 year old daughter called me in...

Brett Goodman is a summer intern at Karl Bayer, Dispute Resolution Expert. Brett is a J.D. candidate at The University...

I have nothing substantive to add about the ups and downs of seven years of litigation in the Barbie vs....

From Michael Zeytoonian's Dispute Settlement Counsel Blog What if your entire town made an official commitment to practicing legal wellness,...

From Michael Zeytoonian's Dispute Settlement Counsel Blog Does the way a dispute gets resolved – either through a negotiated out...

Terry Wheeler explains that his legal knowledge helps him in his mediation and negotiation practice by knowing how to interact...

James Coben shares types of mediation skills that can be taught to lawyers interested in alternative dispute resolution: listening, conflict...

Jay Folberg discusses the rough process of getting the state of Oregon to rewrite its ethical standards so that lawyers...

Barbara McAdoo shares an anecdote about a judge who revealed to her that he mediates all his cases before he...

Tom Stipanowich explains his hope of training law students to be more thoughtful negotiatiors and ultimately, changing the way the...

From the Disputing Blog of Karl Bayer, Victoria VanBuren, and Holly Hayes.The following bills relating to alternative dispute resolution were...

From the Disputing Blog of Karl Bayer, Victoria VanBuren, and Holly Hayes.The One Hundred Eleventh United States Congress began on...

Juliana Birkhoff shares an example of how people under political influences often have good ideas without the political factors clouding...

Carrie Menkel-Meadow talks about the value of mediation including social justice cases. Some of these cases need litigation but in...

Nina Meierding discusses her concern of mediation being too closely tied in to the legal process. This tie, being a practice of...

Randy Lowry discusses why law school academics might be resistant to teaching the negotiation skill set. It's not something they...

Arthur Pearlstein discusses how ADR has become part of 'the game' within the court system and civil litigation.

James Coben talks about concerns he has within the field that include systems designs that force people into mediation and...