At the ABA Annual Meeting this week I will be privileged and honored to be entrusted with the Chair of the Dispute Resolution Committee of the Business Law Section for a three-year term. The Committee is growing in size and influence, and will be associated with several CLE offerings. ...
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Just before Molly Klapper's recent and much-mourned death, the New York State Bar Association released a wonderful book she had worked hard to edit: Definitive Creative Impasse-Breaking Techniques in Mediation. The volume contains many useful contributions from extraordinarily accomplished mediators and trainers. This and the following posts will highlight some...
Jane Gunn's new book is the first ADR volume I have read whose introduction begins "This is not a sex manual!" Well, neither is it a self-help book, nor a reminder of the virtues of candid conversation, nor a refresher on the teachings of the Buddha or Jesus. Yet all that...
Fellow blogger Victoria Pynchon has been kind enough to send me a copy of her new book -- made extra-collectible by her handwritten inscription inside! She has unfortunately used a vulgarity in naming the volume, but the subtitle, The Grownups' ABCs of Conflict Resolution, gives a good sense of its...
The International Bar Association has published this month an "e-book" on Mediation Techniques, edited by Patricia Barclay and including practical and pointed insights for professionals and end-users alike....
The annual Conference of the International Bar Association in Vancouver presented several panels of unusual distinction and interest. This first report covers a group of speakers posing the questions: "What does it take to persuade? How does a lawyer cause an arbitrator, judge, businessperson or other lawyer, to willingly reach the...
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...