This morning NPR’s Morning Edition show aired a story on the mediation of elder care issues. Like many such stories, it discusses the basics of mediation and mentions how to find mediators in one’s area for handle such issues. Audio and print versions of the story can be found at: www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102972077
In 2006 American Board of Neutrals Association (ABNA) incorporated and started accepting applications for membership this January. The organization is geared towards those who have graduate degrees – masters, doctoral, LLM – in the field of Negotiations and Conflict/Alternative Dispute Resolution/Peace Studies. The ABNA’s web site indicates that it is quite an ambitious organization. … Continue reading Birth of a New ADR Organization
Yesterday my Mediation Clinic students spent the day in the down and dirty world of mediation ethics and we discussed the stomach turning case of a local mediator / con-man, Gary Karpin. Regular readers of this blog will remember my posts about this guy from the fall after he was convicted and sentenced to 15 … Continue reading Mediation Ethics and a Lack of Regulation – Revisited
In an earlier post I described the program scheduled at the ABA Dispute Resolution Section’s meeting in New York City. The program – the Law Professors’ Forum: Mediation Shop Talk – is set up to discuss how to incorporate the findings of some recent studies into our teaching. One commenter showed an interest in what will be discussed … Continue reading Call Mediation Profs – part II
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?
