I recently had a rewarding experience discussing a short story, What Happened? A Mediation Story Featuring RPS Coach, with Roger Greenberg’s class on mediation and arbitration at South Texas College of Law Houston. The students’ reactions illustrated how this story can be a valuable teaching tool, portraying a conflict that led to mediation. The story … Continue reading How Much Can You Teach with One Mediation Story?
There has been a lot of discussion about whether artificial intelligence (AI) will help or harm law students. The National Law Review’s article, The 2026 Top 50 Legal Innovators in Academia, provides a useful contribution to this discussion. The article describes faculty and administrators at law schools across the country who are teaching students how … Continue reading How Law Schools Are Teaching Students to Use AI Responsibly
AI slop is coming to a legal system near you. Actually, it probably already has. Lawyers increasingly encounter AI-generated material from clients, counterpart attorneys, self-represented parties, experts, and others. Some of it is excellent. Some is slop. Here’s a technical illustration. Like it or not, your graduates are likely to deal with AI – including … Continue reading Beyond AI Slop: Preparing Law Students for Responsible Practice in the AI Era
Remember when parties developed unrealistic expectations all by themselves? Now they have AI to help. These days, mediators may have to work through expectations that have hardened around an AI-generated assessment. Lawyers may have to explain why the AI analysis is wrong, incomplete, or wildly overconfident. And imagine the client’s surprise when the other side … Continue reading What Are We Going to Do About AI Slop?
When mediate.com recently created this homepage for RPS Coach, it seemed like a good time to reflect on my amazing journey with this bot – and others’ too. I invited people to submit testimonials describing their experiences using RPS Coach, which are posted on the website. Their responses prompted me to think about the last … Continue reading Turns Out That RPS Coach Really Is Pretty Cool
You may have missed some of our recent posts if you read them only when you get an email announcing our latest pieces. We had a technical problem that prevented the following pieces from being distributed. So if you missed those posts, here’s a chance to catch up. New Resources for Law Students and Disputants … Continue reading Catch Up with Indisputably
The RPS Coach homepage not only describes the AI tool, the values embedded in it, and the topics it covers. It also includes a publications section with practical guides and tools that people may freely use, distribute, and post on their own websites. I recently added several new resources that may be useful in legal … Continue reading New Resources for Law Students and Disputants
Are you planning your courses for next semester? If you’re teaching mediation, interviewing, counseling, and negotiation, an ADR survey course, or a related subject, you might consider including a fun teaching resource in your course. What Happened? A Mediation Story Featuring RPS Coach is a plausible story that students can read in about an hour. … Continue reading Teaching Mediation Next Semester? Consider Starting with a Story
I’d love your help. Mediate.com created a terrific new webpage for RPS Coach, with information about its core values, suggestions for getting the best results, descriptions of the topics it covers, and links to the publications incorporated into the tool. Take a look at the homepage. Now I’d like to add a Testimonials page. Many … Continue reading Have You Used RPS Coach? I’d Love Your Testimonials and Feedback – by Friday, June 26
If you want to learn how you can benefit from RPS Coach, check out the new Mediate.com webpage. RPS Coach is a free AI tool offered as a public service. It is designed to help mediators, attorneys, parties, educators, students, trainees, and ADR program administrators prepare for and participate in negotiation and mediation. It reflects … Continue reading Mediate.com Hosts RPS Coach
