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Mediation
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Carmody ADR Blog
Role of the Attorney in a Mediation
In a recent article entitled Gerry Spence, Marshall McLuhan, and What Lawyers Do In Mediation (https://www.mediate.com/articles/PressmanA1.cfm) noted mediator Arthur Pressman details the different roles available to attorneys in mediation. He…
Texas Bar Blog
Guest blog: Directing a dispute resolution center
By Tammie S. Haynes On a beautiful autumn day, I walked into the redbrick Montgomery County Courthouse annex to a nondescript back hallway. Halfway down a line of chairs along the…
Keeping It Real Estate
Setting the boundaries: a new protocol for resolving disputes
When you hear the term "boundary dispute", you probably imagine the following familiar set of circumstances: Two parties at loggerheads over a small strip of land. Entrenched positions holding sway…
ADR Notes
The Seven Steps to Active Listening
Considered by many scholars to be the most comprehensive source on mediation, Christopher W. Moore in The Mediation Process describes the steps to active listening in the following manner. First,…
Pennsylvania Family Law
Observations On Mediation
There is a world of information on the internet. That includes a huge number of websites professing to advise you about divorce. And among the topics often discussed on these…
Carmody ADR Blog
Negotiation Styles in Mediation
Every mediation is nothing more than a “facilitated negotiation.” The mediator attempts to identify the different negotiation styles to determine whether they are compatible or adversarial. Obviously, if the styles…
Family Business Perspectives
Should You Mediate Your Family-Owned Business Dispute?
Disputes between and among owners of family-owned businesses are sometimes unavoidable. When such disputes progress to litigation, they can be extremely costly, time-consuming, and disruptive for the business and its…
Work Comp & Employment Law Insight
The Seven Steps to Active Listening
Considered by many scholars to be the most comprehensive source on mediation, Christopher W. Moore in The Mediation Process describes the steps to active listening in the following manner. First,…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Article on Don’t Pull the Plug on Bioethics Mediation: The Use of Mediation in Health Care Settings and End of Life Situations
Amy Moorkamp recently published an Article entitled, Don’t Pull the Plug on Bioethics Mediation: The Use of Mediation in Health Care Settings and End of Life Situations, J. Disp. Resol.…
Work Comp & Employment Law Insight
Mediation and the HR Professional
My role as a “neutral”, to use the official jargon, necessitates that I am balanced in order to resolve conflict in the workplace and elsewhere. Some may joke that I…