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Kristen Blankley’s Paper on Online Resources and Implementing Parenting & Financial Plans

March 25, 2020 John Lande Leave a comment

From BFOI Kristen Blankley: Colleagues, Here is a near-final draft of an upcoming paper that I am publishing in the Fordham Law Review. It is about Online Resources and implementing Parenting & Financial Plans. Maybe it will give some people new ideas on working with parenting and financial plans in a pandemic. It might give … Continue reading Kristen Blankley’s Paper on Online Resources and Implementing Parenting & Financial Plans →

Webinar Recording About Transitioned Classes and Online Simulations

March 23, 2020 John Lande Leave a comment

From OFOI Noam Ebner: Hi all, The video of the webinar that Sharon Press and I gave last week on conducting simulations in courses transitioning to Zoom and other videoconferencing platforms is now available here. The question about setting up breakup rooms in zoom in advance, asked at about minute 29:00 in the webinar, is … Continue reading Webinar Recording About Transitioned Classes and Online Simulations →

Send Your Resources for the ABA LEC Resource Share

March 6, 2020 John Lande Leave a comment

From SFOI Sharon Press: Greetings everyone! The Legal Educators’ Colloquium and the Legal Educators’ Resource Share at the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution Conference in New Orleans is less than 7 weeks away so it is time to send in what you want to share. This year’s event will take place on Friday, April 24 … Continue reading Send Your Resources for the ABA LEC Resource Share →

How to Calculate and Use BATNAs and Bottom Lines with LIRA

January 27, 2020 John Lande 2 Comments

Everyone talks about knowing one’s BATNA in negotiation and mediation. But that’s a lot easier said than done. In litigated cases, the value of the BATNA usually is the expected trial outcome, but that is notoriously hard to predict for many reasons. The outcome of numerous legal and factual issues may depend on the evidence, … Continue reading How to Calculate and Use BATNAs and Bottom Lines with LIRA →

Would You Like to Write a Book – and Support the ABA?

August 29, 2019 John Lande Leave a comment

Consider the benefits of writing a book. Of course, there may be benefits to you personally, such as enhancing your reputation and advancing your career. By writing a book, you have the opportunity to share your ideas with a larger and wider range of readers than with law review articles. There also are potential benefits … Continue reading Would You Like to Write a Book – and Support the ABA? →

Update on Constructive Conflict Initiative

August 4, 2019 John Lande Leave a comment

Heidi and Guy Burgess have done phenomenal work for a long time to develop resources about dealing with destructive intractable conflicts. They have expanded their project, which is called the Constructive Conflict Initiative. They just posted an update, which describes an impressive range of activities including public education, the Beyond Intractability materials, networking, publicity, and … Continue reading Update on Constructive Conflict Initiative →

Another Year’s Wonderful Resource Share

July 26, 2019 John Lande Leave a comment

From TGFOI Sharon Press and Bobbi McAdoo: Dear Colleagues, It is with great pleasure that Bobbi and I (finally) post the 2019 Legal Resources Share. The document has gotten so large and chock-filled with great ideas that we added this year, we split it into 2 documents: one containing the ideas and … Continue reading Another Year’s Wonderful Resource Share →

Invitation

March 14, 2019 John Lande Leave a comment

As regular readers of this blog know, it is intended to “engage in dialogue that is both scholarly and practical, to dig into the empirical work that is relevant to DR, and to reflect on the reality of DR in action, for better and for worse. We will be posting on a regular basis, and … Continue reading Invitation →

Reading List About Our Racial History

February 19, 2019 John Lande 1 Comment

As noted in this post about our need for truth, reconciliation, and justice about past injustices, Washington Post journalist James Hohmann compiled the following list of readings for Virginia Governor Ralph Northam to learn about our racial history based on suggestions of preeminent historians. This is a good reading list for all of us to … Continue reading Reading List About Our Racial History →

Resources for Truth and Reconciliation

February 19, 2019 John Lande 1 Comment

A companion post discusses a great need for truth, reconciliation, and justice about past injustices in our society. This post identifies some organizations in our field that work to promote these goals and uses language from their websites to describe their activities. If you know of any resources that should be added to this list, … Continue reading Resources for Truth and Reconciliation →

Legal Stress

November 26, 2018 John Lande 6 Comments

In a recent post, I described the intense stress that individual and organizational litigants often undergo as a result of litigation. The legal system attracts and magnifies stressful conflicts, which affects everyone in its ambit. In addition to litigants, this includes law students, lawyers, and legal academics. This post provides excerpts from my research summarizing … Continue reading Legal Stress →

Collected Stone Soup Resources

August 3, 2018 John Lande 1 Comment

The Stone Soup Project developed an extensive set of materials for faculty to help their students get a better understanding of the real world of practice. This post collects links to these materials in one place so that faculty can easily include a Stone Soup assignment in a wide range of courses. Although these materials … Continue reading Collected Stone Soup Resources →