Of the many skilled mediators I have been privileged to know, few are more insightful and articulate than Robert Creo. Bob recently shared a terrific perspective over a tasty lunch: That three discussions, or dances, inform a negotiated settlement discussion, and only one of them is acknowledged by the parties. ...
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Prof. Joseph Allegretti wrote an interesting article ten years ago titled A Christian Perspective on Alternative Dispute Resolution, 28 Fordham Urb. L.J. 997 (2001). In it he tells the tale of St. Francis of Assisi's mediating a conflict between the residents of a town and a ravenous wolf that was...
In the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, a judge held a hearing upon Order to Show Cause why Wells Fargo, which had been required to participate in a mediation, should not be sanctioned for the conduct of its counsel in that mediation. The mediator testified, Wells Fargo's counsel testified, and...
I had a good chuckle at an article that appears in the current issue of Dispute Resolution International, the journal of the Dispute Resolution Section of the International Bar Association. Daniele Cutolo and Mark Alexander Shalaby discuss a case brought in Italy to test whether an Italian statute requiring mediation...
Giuseppe de Palo and I first met in 1999 or 2000, when I was bowled over the first time I learned about his work with The ADR Center in Rome. Since that time, every occasion I meet Giuseppe I am reminded what a powerhouse of talent, ambition, energy and aspiration...
In 1999, CPR Institute published Kathleen Scanlon's volume Mediator's Deskbook. It was (and still is) a terrific book, subsequently translated into Japanese and Chinese, but alas out of print after 11 years. James Henry, CPR's founder and president, thought of it as "the well-thumbed paperback that every mediator leafs through...
In his keynote address to the Section of Dispute Resolution of the American Bar Association, MIT Professor Lawrence Susskind urged that it was time for ADR professionals to get involved in the failure of meaningful discourse in American public life, and to assist people to talk to each other about deeply...