Michael Leathes gave a characteristically provocative and inspirational address at the 4th ICC International Mediation Conference in Paris on February 7, 2013. Former in-house counsel and a founder and director of the International Mediation Institute, Leathes has posted his speech and the amusing slides that accompany it on the IMI...
Texas lawyer and mediator Don Philbin has devised a piece of software that, based upon thousands of negotiations, can indicate the likely responses to various negotiation offers and demands, thus guiding counsel in what response an opponent will likely take to a particular negotiation tactic, avoiding guesswork and streamlining the...
On January 22, 2013, CPR Institute issued a press release announcing the promulgation of the "21st Century Corporate ADR Pledge." The Pledge provides for signitories "to commit its resources to manage and resolve disputes through negotiation, mediation and other ADR processes when appropriate, with a view to establishing and practicing...
Our faithful correspondent Alessandro Bruni, of Concilia, writes that he and Michela Sitzia have authored an about the mediation in Italy (updated to the recent court action finding the mediation statute unconstitutional). Alessandro writes: This article is a part of a book titled “Mediation 2013 in 16 jurisdictions worldwide”, edited by...
The four films produced by Harvard's Kennedy School on mediating corporate-community disputes have been recognized with the Award for Best Publication or Communication by the prestigious Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR), in London. I am honored to have written and co-directed these films, and also served as interviewer on two....
The interest in Abraham Lincoln sparked by the recent release of Spielberg's film prompts a reminder of Tom Stipanowich's recent article, in the ABA's Dispute Resolution magazine, on Lincoln as a counsellor and negotiator. Lincoln's oft-quoted advice, "discourage litigation," becomes far more than an adage when one considers real-life instances of his actually...
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...