Mediation Blog
An Update on Prior Disclosure.
As some of you may recall, the California Law Revision Commission issued its Tentative Recommendation late last year to create an exception to mediation confidentiality. However, the proposed statute could not find a sponsor and [Read More]
Over Confidence Can Kill!
My husband is known as an “aggressive driver” who, being impatient, takes unnecessary risks in his driving. When I mention these attributes to him, he retorts that he has yet to have an accident after [Read More]
What is “Good Faith”?
Recently, I conducted a mediation in which defense counsel was very candid with me by advising that she was there only because the court ordered the mediation and her client would just assume take the [Read More]
Different Ways of Seeing The Same Thing!
What do you see? In a March 13, 2018 post, LiveScience.com contributor Jasmin Malik Chua published an article on the value of optical illusions. Entitled “What This Optical Illusion Reveals About the Human Brain”, Ms. [Read More]
Beware of Tweets
Once again, I return to the subject of “fake news”; this time because of a recent study just published in Science on March 8, 2108. The study- conducted by 3 MIT scholars- Soroush Vosough, Deb [Read More]
Happiness Up To A Point!
Lawsuits are often about money. And the plaintiff often thinks that if she wins and gets all this money- she will be quite happy. And conversely, a defendant thinks that if she wins, she will [Read More]
