Mediation Blog
Being Transparent
We are all facing a “new normal.” Most of us- over 75%- are working remotely from home trying to adapt very quickly and competently to this “new normal”. We are attempting to keep the same [Read More]
The Covid-19 Dispute
I guess I am doing what everyone else is doing these days; looking at the news through the lens of my training, expertise and experience. Thus, I am watching the issue of politics/economy vs. medicine [Read More]
What, Me Worry?
Being involved in a lawsuit or even just in a dispute can be stressful, worrisome if not anxiety ridden. Believe it or not, being the mediator trying to help the parties resolve their dispute can [Read More]
Left Digit Bias!
Readers of my blog probably realize by now that one of my favorite topics is cognitive biases which “…refer to a range of systematic errors in human decision- making from the tendency to use mental [Read More]
Happiness
As one might suspect, mediations are more likely to end in settlement when the participants are in a good mood or are happy. Parties in bad moods make a mediator’s job more difficult; their overall [Read More]
Implicit Bias: How We Write!
It seems that implicit biases are all around us and are inescapable: they appear even in the language we use in our writing. A study (“The sex of researchers affects the language of research papers.” [Read More]
