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Dwight Golann’s Book on “Mediating Legal Disputes”

In 1999, CPR Institute published Kathleen Scanlon’s volume Mediator’s Deskbook.  It was (and still is) a terrific book, subsequently translated into Japanese and Chinese, but alas out of print after 11 years.  James Henry, CPR’s founder and president, thought of it as “the well-thumbed paperback that every mediator leafs through on the way to the mediation.”

In the decade since Mediator’s Handbook was published, the mediation library has grown to a scale Jim Henry could not have imagined.  These include not only excellent books, like Richard Shell’s Bargaining for Advantage and Ben Picker’s Mediation Practice Guide, but casebooks like Carrie Menkel-Meadow’s Mediation, practical innovations like Steve Brams’ The Win-Win Solution, compilations like Russ Bleemer’s Mediation Approaches and Insights, periodicals like the ABA Dispute Resolution Section’s Dispute Resolution Magazine, web sites like Mediate.com, and blogs like… well, modesty forbids!

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Upcoming “Gotta-Be-There” Events for Corporate Conflict Managers

In our field, there are many more meetings, conventions, conferences, workshops and trainings than there is work.  It’s impossible to attend them all and it’s sometimes hard to separate the wheat from the chaff.  Three instances of real “wheat” are coming up that should be on the short list for corporate end-users of conflict resolution tools, and for the attorneys who counsel them. Read more »

Mediator Certification

In her excellent blog (linked on the home page of this blog), Diane Levin does us a great service by cutting to the quick of the debate on certification.  Her post is an essential read. Read more »

Do they Want Training? Or Trust?

I’ve spent a good deal of time on both sides of the training “fishbowl” — being trained, doing training, observing and evaluating trainers.  Yet not a single disputant, when interviewing me to serve as a neutral, has asked me where I was trained. Read more »

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