Margaret Shaw Articles & Videos
From NY Times Obit:
Margaret Shaw, a lawyer and pioneer in alternative dispute resolution, died unexpectedly Thursday. She was 71. As a successful civil litigator, Ms. Shaw recognized the need to resolve legal disputes apart from costly, lengthy trials. That led her and colleagues to found ADR Associates. In 2004, it merged with JAMS where she became a senior figure. She was repeatedly recognized as the Best Lawyer in America, Mediation category and as a Super Lawyer by Law & Politics Magazine, 2006-2012. In 1966, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Smith College and was president of her class She is survived by a daughter, Kate Kripke, a psychotherapist in Boulder, Colo. and grandchildren, Kinley, and Bridget; and a son, Samuel Shaw, a screenwriter in Los Angeles, and grandsons, Philo, and Winslow, and me, her husband. A memorial service will be announced. Herbert J. Sturz
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From the Blog of Phyllis G. Pollack. When the parties settle a matter at mediation, I am usually very happy about it. But, I am also conflicted because the settlement...
By Phyllis PollackNina Meierding explains a few different styles of mediation including transformative, facilitative, and evaluative. She mostly practices facilitative, but believes every mediator is at least subtly evaluative in their method.
By Nina MeierdingPermission to publish by Eugene Register Guard and Author September 26, 1998 We've lost a peacemaker. Not the headline-making, Nobel Prize-winning type. Kathleen O'Connell Corcoran was no jet-setting diplomat settling...
By Karen McGowan , Kathleen O'Connell Corcoran
