Mediation Blog
Virtual Mediation Is Here To Stay!
Recently, I received an email from Darren Lee, Executive Director of The National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals (NADN) with the results of a survey (NADN-2022-SurveyOfLitigators-ViewsOnODR[64656] ) of litigators on virtual mediation. The survey compared responses [Read More]
Another Example of Not Trusting Our Intuition!
Many of my blogs have focused on cognitive biases or systematic errors of judgment. In perusing the internet, I found another interesting example of why we should not trust our intuition. A LiveScience article (“What [Read More]
Back To Basics: Why Mediate?
As part of my preparation to teach a class on mediation confidentiality, I reviewed the Uniform Mediation Act with all of its comments (UMA). In doing so, it struck me that although mediation is extremely [Read More]
Another Bias with Long Term Consequences!
Whenever I see an article on implicit bias, I must read and write about it. This time, the article is entitled, “Embedded bias: How medical records sow discrimination” by Darius Tahir of Kaiser Health News. [Read More]
86,400 Seconds
Last week, I posted a blog about the shortness of our working life and whether we really want to spend it embroiled in litigation. That post reminded me of a much earlier post (dated October [Read More]
Your Working Life Is Short: Why waste it on Litigation?
The other day I conducted a mediation between a non-English speaking plaintiff and a used car dealer. The issue was whether the dealer had misrepresented certain aspects of the sale to the plaintiff. We were [Read More]
