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Sid Lezak: Answering “What Can You Do for Us?” – Video

Sid Lezak talks about how he answers the question, ‘what is it you do that we should pay you X amount of dollars?’. He answers that he is an agent of reality (or their perceptions of reality) and by the end, the parties will have an opportunity to evaluate whether the offer that’s made is in their best interest rather than continuing to struggle.

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Sid Lezak

Sid Lezak was a long-serving U.S. Attorney for Oregon who had for the past 20 years dedicated his career to furthering creative and constructive dispute resolution, particularly mediation. Sid was a leading mediator in the Pacific Northwest and was widely regarded as the father of mediation in Oregon. Sid was the… MORE >

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