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Culture Differences

As I mentioned in my last blog post, I started teaching ADR Ethics at USC Gould School of Law last week. During our discussion of ethics, I asked whether it would be proper to hide information. I posed the following hypothetical: At mediation, an Insurance company settled a dog [Read More]

Are You Hearing What I Am Saying?

As we all know, there is quite a bit of subtlety involved in every negotiation. While each party is outwardly stating her perspective or views, each is also communicating a lot by what is not being said, or by what is being implied. Sometimes, these subtle communications get lost because the [Read More]