Mediation Blog
How The California Legislature Kept Busy in 2020: Not so many new laws!
oHappy New Year! I hope that everyone has remained healthy and safe!!!! As usual, the  California  Legislature kept busy in 2020 passing many laws although not as many as in past years. It enacted only [Read More]
Reflections on the last 525,600 minutes!
The Broadway musical, "Rent" has a song entitled "Seasons of Love" which starts off by asking: Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes. Five hundred twenty five thousand moments so dear. five hundred twenty [Read More]
The Importance of Flexibility, Creativity and Being Prepared!
Recently, I conducted two mediations that revealed the importance of flexibility, creativity and being prepared. The first one was an alleged wrongful termination case in which the employer was disputing that the alleged employee was [Read More]
Personality Matters!
During my first week of class teaching mediation ethics, I usually give a version of the Kilmann Diagnostic Test because I believe that one’s personality type impacts one’s mediating style. Thus, a blog post dated [Read More]
Difficult Conversations
Recently, a friend of mine challenged me to write a blog about how to survive Thanksgiving dinner considering our recent election. Some will be happy while others will be distraught at the results; yet we [Read More]
There is NOTHING like Preparation!
Well, it happened again; another mediation in which one side was not prepared. And… as you might surmise, the mediation did not last long. (This is a topic I have often addressed in my blogs.) [Read More]
