Yesterday Dwight Golann sent out an email encouraging attendance at the Law Professors’ Forum: Mediation Shop Talk, which will be taking place at the ABA Dispute Resolution Section conference in New York City. In case you didn’t get his message, here it is. Dear colleagues, Here is the latest on the Law Professors’ Teaching Forum: Mediation Shop … Continue reading Calling all Mediation Profs
As we begin to dive into the Spring semester, you’ll find yourself thinking about making flight reservations for the ABA Dispute Resolution Section’s Annual Meeting in April. We want you to know about a new program we’re testing out: Law Professors’ Teaching Forum: Mediation Shop Talk. It will be held on Saturday April 18, from … Continue reading Calling All Mediation Professors – Your Plans for the ABA DR Section’s 2009 Annual Meeting
Consider this a friendly reminder that the registration deadline for the ABA’s Representation in Mediation Competition is quickly arriving – January 31, 2009. Entry forms are online and a list of regional host schools is accessible from the competition’s home page at http://www.abanet.org/dispute/mediationcomp.html. Competition problems will be released the first week of February. Additionally, for … Continue reading Registration Deadline – ABA Representation in Mediation Competition
After thinking about Russell Korobkin’s thought provoking critique of Integrative Bargaining (Sean, thanks for the comments), my mind wandered back to an interesting exchange b/w my co-blogger Andrea and Russ. When Russ took the podium, he said he was ready to duck to avoid the rotten fruit and vegetables soon to be headed his way, … Continue reading Against Integrative Bargaining – coda
Professor Russell Korobkin from UCLA gave an interesting talk at the AALS DR Section Works-in-Progress Conference a couple of weeks ago. His talk, Against Integrative Bargaining, was interesting and certainly caught the attention of everyone at the conference. His basic thesis was simple: Integrative Bargaining (or problem-solving negotiation or interest based negotiation) is oversold. Looking … Continue reading Against Integrative Bargaining
Is one’s bottom line (or reservation price or walk away point) in negotiation a material fact under Rule 4.1? If so, why is that? I’ve been wrestling with these two questions in a piece I’m writing on attorney negotiation ethics (thanks to those who gave me feedback on the article at the AALS Works-in-Progress conference … Continue reading One’s Bottom Line – A Material Fact under Rule 4.1?
Everyone in the mediation community needs to know the story of Gary Karpin, a disbarred lawyer from Vermont who moved to Arizona and started advertising his services as a divorce mediator. Karpin made a habit of striking up romantic relationships with isolated, lonely, and vulnerable women in order to swindle them out of lots of money. In … Continue reading Con Man Posing as a Mediator Convicted of Fraud and Theft
The winners of the ABA’s 2008 James B. Boskey Dispute Resolution Essay Competition for Law Students were recently announced, and awards the winners are [drum roll please]: First prize went to Adam Gregg from Drake University School of Law for his paper entitled Contractual Expansion of the Scope of Judicial Review After Hall Street: … Continue reading 2008 Boskey Essay Competition Winners Announced
The comic strip Non Sequitur has had several good mediation related cartoons, and this one from last week continues that tradition. Enjoy.
Like many of you, I’ve been following the current financial crisis and the discussions of the $700 billion to $1 trillion bailout proposed by the Bush administration. I don’t claim to be an expert in the matters of finance and Wall Street, and I hope those who are knowledgeable on these issues will be able … Continue reading The Proposed Bailout as a Negotiation Lesson
