Mediation Blog
Mediation Confidentiality is Being Threatened Once Again!
On Valentine’s day, 2023, Assembly member Jesse Gabriel introduced AB 924 to be added as Section 1770 to the California Code of Civil Procedure. Entitled, Alternative dispute resolution: complaints, it currently reads: SECTION 1. Title [Read More]
AI Admits it will not replace me anytime soon!
Spoiler Alert: Much of the content below is computer generated created not by my brain but by computer “intelligence”! As a follow up to my blog last week about the use of AI, I decided [Read More]
The Future Has Become the Present!
This past Sunday, 60 Minutes had a segment on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and more specifically, on BARD – the AI program created by Google. During the segment, Scott Pelley asked BARD to create a short [Read More]
How Do You Approach Resolving Conflicts?
In their book, Essentials of Negotiation, Roy J. Lewicki, David M. Saunders and Bruce Barry (7th ed., McGraw-Hill, New York, 2021) set out the traditional negotiation styles. They include: Contending (also called competing or dominating) [Read More]
Knitting while Zooming!
For the past three years, many of us have been living on Zoom or a similar video conference platform. And no doubt, many times our attention and minds have wondered, and we find ourselves looking [Read More]
Left Alone with Our Thoughts!
At Friday night Shabbat services last week, the Cantor (who was filling in for the rabbi) read a sermon prepared by Rabbi Ben Spratt. While the sermon eventually focused on the torah portion for the [Read More]
