A collection of Blaise Pascal’s letters, published in 1657, included a letter that contained the apology, ”Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte." That is to say, “I wrote a longer letter than usual because I did...
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Prof. Marjorie Silver of Touro Law Center writes to say: We are pleased to announce the publication of Professor Marjorie Silver’s new book: Transforming Justice, Lawyers, and the Practice of Law (Marjorie A. Silver, ed., Carolina Academic Press). Transforming Justice, Lawyers and the Practice of Law is a collection of writings by participants in...
Michael Leathes has written a book on negotiation that is aimed at corporate counsel. In so doing he has given us a clear insight into the challenges of decision making within corporations, and the skills needed for those of us who counsel them. By virtue of his experience and his...
Prof. Marjorie Silver of Touro Law Center has sent me the proofs of a book that she is editing, scheduled to be released in January 2017 by Carolina Academic Press. Titled Transforming Justice, Lawyers and the Practice of Law, the volume collects brave and insightful essays on the sometimes uncomfortable...
Of all the volumes on mediation -- many of them very good, some of them of great practical value -- few are "must-have" volumes, in my mind. One "must-have" is Dwight Golann's Mediating Legal Disputes. It is well-thumbed and as recently as last night I had occasion to pull it...
In 1984, the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends published a volume called The Mediator's Handbook. The fourth edition of this wonderful book has recently been released through the Canadian publisher New Society Publishers. By now entirely independent of its initial Quaker roots, The Mediator's Handbook has...
It is a cause of dismay, in a way, that the ABA has published John Lande's superb book, Lawyering with Early Planned Negotiation: How You Can Get Good Results for Clients and Make Money. More than a generation since Frank Sander espoused the "Multi-Door Courthouse," and Jim Henry founded CPR Institute,...