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Harvard Business Review, January-February 2000, p. 16-17. Negotiations conducted over e-mail often go nowhere. Here's what you can do to...

Why do so many custom construction projects end up in fights? This trio of articles is aimed at the main...

This article will soon appear in the ABA ADR Section Dispute Resolution Magazine. Persons interested in subscribing to Dispute Resolution...

Like you, I would rather feel that I am doing a good job when I mediate. It is easy to...

Picture a middle-aged woman who is very worried that her elderly father is continuing to live in the family home...

In the days before the fatal shootings at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Ark., say children who survived, the two...

We witnessed recently a heated interaction between members of the dispute resolution community. The argument was made possible because the...

At its recent meeting in California, the Drafting Committee on the Uniform Mediation Act of the National Conference of Commissioners...

What is Negotiation? A: There are two principle negotiation theories and strategic approaches to negotiation: competitive or positional negotiation; and...

Reprinted with permission from the December 1999 issue of Alternatives a publication of CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution. In a...

I. Cultural Issues in Mediation: Individualist and Collectivist Paradigms A. Introduction Every mediation has a unique character influenced by the...

SANTA FE, N.M. (ANS) -- Principal Bill Beacham noticed that some of the school bullies weren't being sent to his...

Previously published in California Lawyer, January 2000The first federal judicial decision construing California's still-young mediation confidentiality law has sent a...

Employee attitudes and characteristics In a 1990 survey: 62% of respondents indicated that they would be more willing to take...

If we need a reason to encourage peer mediation techniques in our schools, we need look no further than the...

REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION. Reprinted from Dispute Resolution Journal, February 1998. Published by the American Arbitration Association, 335 Madison Avenue, New...

Friends and family members often ask us, "So, tell us what you do again? It has to do with big...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS When the idea of writing a piece on the ADA (Americans With Disabilities Act) and ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution)...

This article appeared in the January/February 1997 issue of The California Therapist. It is reprinted with permission of the California...

INTRODUCTION: Until recently, land use mediation at any level has been comparatively infrequent. While the success of multi-party public policy...

In our society's criminal justice system, justice equals punishment. You do the crime, you do the time. You do the...

Speech at Annual Conference of theNorthern California Mediation Association, March 22, 1997 You can imagine my horror when I read...

The Internet and World Wide Web are becoming more important every day, including for mediators and other dispute resolution professionals....

Reprinted by permission from Solo - A Guide for the Single Parent July,1996.Pouting and crying, tantrums and yelling, stealing and...

This article appeared in the September 1997 edition of "Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation," a publication of the...

Order at Amazon.com We dance round in a ring and suppose But the Secret sits in the middle and knows....

Culturally Responsive Alternative Dispute Resolution For Latinos is a recently published report (by Steven Weller and John A. Martin, State...

Myth #1: A tough, effective, take-no-prisoners litigator should not mediate, because real litigators don't mediate. Fact: The problem with this...

"Of those that reached agreement in Mediation, two thirds of both men and women agreed that spousal support was fair;...

Last month, a reporter from the Los Angeles Daily Journal asked me a question about mediation which gave me quite...