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Mediation & People With Disabilities author.

Mediation & People With Disabilities

For those who miss the monthly NYC-DR Roundtable Breakfast meetings sponsored by ACRGNY and John Jay College due to schedules...

By Jeff Thompson
Negotiating Disability author.

Negotiating Disability

Last summer an online magazine for entrepreneurial women elevated form over substance when it advised its audience to accessorize for...

By Diane J. Levin
Feeling Extorted? Mr. Molski’s Serial ADA Litigation and Why We Settle author.

Feeling Extorted? Mr. Molski’s Serial ADA Litigation and Why We Settle

Many in the legal blogosphere are buzzing about the recent Supreme Court decision letting stand a Central District injunction barring...

By Victoria Pynchon
Concept of Undue Hardship and Reasonable Accommodation in the Employment Context author.

Concept of Undue Hardship and Reasonable Accommodation in the Employment Context

Republished online with the permission of the American Bar AssociationWhat is a reasonable accomodation in the employment context? Under the...

By William D. Goren
Workplace Disability Conflict Management author.

Workplace Disability Conflict Management

Dear Friends, This last posting brings our ADA Mediation Section web page to a close after over five busy years....

By Judith Cohen
Questions and Answers for Parties to Mediation: Mediation and the Americans with Disabilities Act author.

Questions and Answers for Parties to Mediation: Mediation and the Americans with Disabilities Act

Introduction The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Rehabilitation Act) make it unlawful...

By Managing Editor
EEOC’s 10 Reasons to Mediate author.

EEOC’s 10 Reasons to Mediate

The new video 10 Reasons to Mediate introduces businesses to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC) National Mediation Program. Mediation...

By EEOC National Mediation Program EEOC

Mediation Capacity and Self-Determination: A Recommendation On The Model Standards Of Conduct

Many mediator ethics codes, including the widely used Model Standards of Conduct for Mediators (American Bar Association Sections of Dispute...

By Association of the Bar of NY
Maximizing Effective Participation author.

Maximizing Effective Participation

REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION. This article was originally published in Alternatives, Volume 21, Number 6 (June 2003). This article addresses party...

By Patricia Porter
Lessons from the Bioethics Field author.

Lessons from the Bioethics Field

REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION. This article was originally published in Alternatives, Volume 21, Number 6 (June 2003). Mediating disputes with persons...

By Ellen Waldman
Ensuring Self-Determination through Mediation Readiness: Ethical Considerations author.

Ensuring Self-Determination through Mediation Readiness: Ethical Considerations

The maintenance of disputant self-determination is among the most important and defining characteristics of mediation; to understand its preeminence, one...

By Tim Hedeen

It is Not a Disability Issue

REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION. This article was originally published in Alternatives, Volume 21, Number 6 (June 2003). The issue of party...

By Kathleen Blank
Fulfilling Your Obligations on Mediation Capacity author.

Fulfilling Your Obligations on Mediation Capacity

The mediation is going smoothly . . . the attorneys are cooperating . . . but the mediator is starting...

By Judith Cohen

Addressing Capacity: What Is the Role of the Mediator?

A colleague of mine once said, “Never put a period after the word ‘capacity.” That is, always ask “capacity for...

By Erica Wood
Convening for Enhanced Self-Determination and Access to the Process author.

Convening for Enhanced Self-Determination and Access to the Process

Reprinted from The Texas Mediator, Volume 18, Number 2, Summer 2003 A publication of the Texas Association of Mediators www.txmediator.org...

By Judith Cohen
Mediating Reasonable Accommodations for ADA Cases: What every mediator needs to know author.

Mediating Reasonable Accommodations for ADA Cases: What every mediator needs to know

“What has disability got to do with conflict?” The disability itself is not the source of "conflict" between parties. Instead,...

By Debra Dupree
ADA Mediation Guidelines: An Ongoing Endeavor author.

ADA Mediation Guidelines: An Ongoing Endeavor

The three-year process of developing the ADA Mediation Guidelines, housed at the Kukin Program for Conflict Resolution at Benjamin N....

By Judith Cohen
Considerations for Mediating with People Who Are Culturally Deaf author.

Considerations for Mediating with People Who Are Culturally Deaf

This document is a publication of the Consortium for Appropriate Dispute Resolution in Special Education (CADRE). Funding for this document...

By Annette Leonard, Debi Duren, John Reiman
ADA Mediation-Important Challenges Remain author.

ADA Mediation-Important Challenges Remain

Disability mediation has become an accepted and developing segment of the ADR field since the publication of the ADA Mediation...

By Judith Cohen
Conflict Resolution under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act author.

Conflict Resolution under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 1997 (IDEA), 20 U.S.C. 1401 et. seq (IDEA) is overall an extremely well-written...

By Jeanne Asherman

The Role of Attorneys in Special Education Mediation

A Briefing Paper from The Consortium for Appropriate Dispute Resolution in Special Education (CADRE)This document was developed by CADRE,a project...

By Edward Feinberg
Encouraging the Use of Mediation by Families from Diverse Backgrounds author.

Encouraging the Use of Mediation by Families from Diverse Backgrounds

This document was developed by CADRE, a project of Direction Service pursuant to Cooperative Agreement CFDA H326D98002 with the Office...

By Anita Engiles, Catherine Fromme, Philip Moses

Community-Based Alternatives for Individuals With Disabilities (Executive Order 13217 of June 18, 2001)

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America,...

By President George Bush
A Just Alternative or Just an Alternative? Mediation and the Americans with Disabilities Act author.

A Just Alternative or Just an Alternative? Mediation and the Americans with Disabilities Act

Originally published in 62 OHIO ST. L.J. 11 (2001).I. Introduction Over the years, the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...

By Paul Steven Miller
Resolution Of Reasonable Accomodation Disputes author.

Resolution Of Reasonable Accomodation Disputes

An earlier version of this article was published in the Los Angeles Daily Journal. It was presented in its current...

By Sara Adler
The Interactive ADA Accommodation Process author.

The Interactive ADA Accommodation Process

This article was first published in "Employment Update", a newsletter of Bullivant|Houser|Baily. Winter 2001, Volume 6, Number 1.The Americans With...

By Clay D. Creps, Douglas R. Andres
Guidelines For Mediation Of ADA Claims author.

Guidelines For Mediation Of ADA Claims

Reprinted with permission from ADR Currents, Vol. 5, No. 3 (Sept. -Nov. 2000), a publication of the American Arbitration Association.Violations...

By Bruce E. Meyerson
Top 10 Reasons Why Psychiatric Disability Discrimination Claims Are So Hard To Mediate author.

Top 10 Reasons Why Psychiatric Disability Discrimination Claims Are So Hard To Mediate

This article previously appeared in the Journal of Alternative Dispute Resolution in Employment, Volume 2, Issue 3, Fall 2000.One principal...

By Jeff Kichaven
Disabilities And Mediation Readiness In Court-Referred Cases:Developing Screening Criteria And Service Networks author.

Disabilities And Mediation Readiness In Court-Referred Cases:Developing Screening Criteria And Service Networks

Originally appeared in Mediation Quarterly, Volume 16, Number 2, Winter 1998/99 Mediation is an ideal alternative to court for many...

By Patrick G Coy, Tim Hedeen
Unique Issues In Mediating ADA Disputes author.

Unique Issues In Mediating ADA Disputes

Reprinted with permission from ADR Report, Volume 3, Number 2, pages 5-8. Copyright 1999 by Pike and Fischer, Inc. Although...

By Judith Cohen

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