This morning our Marquette Foreclosure Mediation Program was singled out as a primary reason that the Mayor of Milwaukee won a public policy award for “Innovative Response to Economic Downturn” from the Public Policy Forum and last week the MFMP won “Lawyer of the Year” from the Milwaukee Bar Association. Not a bad week! I … Continue reading Theory to Practice (and the lovely results)
I am delighted to announce that Paul Kirgis will be joining our blog. Paul’s previous blogs have always been interesting and helpful and I know that he will add an important financial element to our understanding. Paul is the Faculty Chair of the Hugh L. Carey Center for Dispute Resolution at St. John’s University School of … Continue reading Introducing New Blogger Paul Kirgis
In honor of my students turning in their final Negotiation journals today and in the spirit of my former dean who would post his first year law school grades just to remind us all that he was human, I wanted to share a recent negotiation failure. (Just because we teach it, doesn’t mean we get … Continue reading Negotiation Failures
In my final ethics class last week, as we were ending the course with some discussion on how to choose law firms, balance life and work, etc, we also discussed how to deal with zinger/illegal/offensive interview questions. The problem in the book was a classic–what would you do if the partner interviewing you for a … Continue reading Job Interviews, Offensive Questions, and Effective Responses
So I have taken a week to think about how to blog about a session that I saw last weekend at the ABA Conference. The session was about using movies to demonstrate gender differences in negotiation and I went to see what teaching tools might be provided. I was on the negotiation program track for the … Continue reading Gender Frustrations
Following up on an interesting session on “Teaching the ADR Survey Class” at the ABA meeting last weekend in San Francisco, I wanted to post a couple links for people more interested in using videotapes and other interactive media in teaching their class. First, courtesy of Vivian Hilder at Manitoba, I link here to a … Continue reading Videos and Other Ideas for the ADR Survey Class
I participated earlier this week in a fabulous conference at Washington & Lee discussing the current system of investment arbitration and ways that this system could be improved. In an earlier post, I described how this conference was billed as a mix of pracitioners and academics and the panels were just that. On my panel, … Continue reading Designing New Processes for Investment Disputes?
The following is a post from Natalie Fleury, the dispute program manager here at Marquette about an incident last weekend: I was the victim of a walk by insult last weekend, and I’ve been trying to process my thoughts and feelings about it. After church on Sunday (I’ll discuss the church part in a minute), … Continue reading Walk By Insults & Political Discourse
I am linking here to an article last week discussing how mediation is more and more prevalent in dealing with elder law issues. Lovely to see this discussed in the Wall Street Journal and explained quite well. Hat tip to my assistant Carrie for sending me the article!
Earlier this week, the New York Times had an article about how citizens of the Georgia (the country) were in a panic over a fake news broadcast that stated Russia was invading Georgia. Although the television show was intended as political satire, it was apparently so real (and close to home) that citizens believed the … Continue reading International Media and Conflict Resolution
