Conflict Resolution|Courts

A Judge Writes about "Problem-Solving Courts"

Conflict Resolution|Courts

A Judge Writes about "Problem-Solving Courts"

In preparation for next week's Annual Meeting of the American Bar Association, I have been delighted to get to know a group of judges who will be offering a program on Saturday afternoon, August 7, on the use of ADR in Business Courts.  One of them, Judge Steven I Platt...

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Conflict Resolution|Negotiation

Simple Methods to Determine the Value of Claims

Conflict Resolution|Negotiation

Simple Methods to Determine the Value of Claims

Many parties in mediation -- and many of their counsel -- consider that a "win" is a deal that gets them the number they asked for, or close to it.  In fact that's not so, and a mediator provides important value to disputants by assisting them to determine, in a...

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Religion

Quaker Mice

Religion

Quaker Mice

I am spending this week in beautiful Silver Bay, New York, on the western side of Lake George.  There, at a grand old historic YMCA summer camp, the New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) holds its annual summer conference.            Quakers are  a "peculiar people"...

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Courts

ADR in Business Courts

Courts

ADR in Business Courts

Monday, July 12, is the cut-off date for Early Bird Registration for the ABA Annual Meeting in San Francisco.  I will be speaking on a panel on arbitration, with such luminaries as Mark Trachtenberg, Deborah Rothman and Rob Friedman, who argued Jackson v. Rent-a-Center before the Supreme Court.  (Honestly, sometimes...

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Mediation|Religion

Negotiating With The Wolf

Mediation|Religion

Negotiating With The Wolf

Prof. Joseph Allegretti wrote an interesting article ten years ago titled A Christian Perspective on Alternative Dispute Resolution, 28 Fordham Urb. L.J. 997 (2001).  In it he tells the tale of St. Francis of Assisi's mediating a conflict between the residents of a town and a ravenous wolf that was...

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