Mediation Blog
What is your S.W.O.T.?
A few months ago, I attended a board of directors meeting of the SCMA Education Foundation. At the meeting, the president started talking about "S.W.O.T. Analysis". Not having majored in business, I had no clue [Read More]
Information Please
Let us suppose that you are an attorney representing a client at a mediation. The following occurs:Your clients, the defendants, have told you that you are authorizedto pay $750,000 to settle the case. In settlement [Read More]
“The Lunch Date”
A few weeks ago, I participated in a panel at the California State Bar Convention discussing the "Ethical Duties of Eliminating Bias in the Legal Profession." While the topic sounds dry, our discussion was not. [Read More]
The Good and Bad of Eye Contact
Is eye contact a good thing or a bad thing? Some will answer by saying it depends upon the person's cultural background as Westerners value sustained eye contact while Middle Easterners and/or Asians will view [Read More]
Are you a Nervous Negotiator?
Do you have sweaty palms and a churning stomach whenever you have to negotiate something? Or, are you as cool as a cucumber during such events. A recent study indicates that your nervousness or lack [Read More]
Assumptions: Why Cookie Eats Grass
After putting Argus down last October due to spleen cancer, we got a new dog- Cookie - who just turned three. Needless to say, after having a senior citizen dog, it is quite a change [Read More]
