Pure gold: Ten Settlement Conference/Mediation Traps For The Unwary, from Settle It Now Negotiation Blog.Read More

Andrea Schneider at Marquette University Law School has a forthcoming article with disconcerting but not surprising conclusions, What Family Lawyers are Really Doing When They Negotiate. From the abstract: After discussing what skills are needed for effective negotiation behavior, the Article then looks more closely at how family lawyers in particular are negotiating.Read More

For presentation at the 9th LEADR International Dispute Resolution Conference, Wellington, NZ later this month, Mediator Blah…Blah…‘s Geoff Sharp has scoured the internet and accumulated a great list of mediation and negotiation sites for his topic, 40 Sites In 40 Minutes, online here. You don’t have to travel around the world to get the benefit...Read More

Check out this great post at Online Guide To Mediaiton titled Won’t get fooled again: negotiating with liars.Read More

The cost of conflict: what happens when we frame divorce as combat is the title of a nice post by Diane Levin at Online Guide To Mediation. She was successfully able to put into words (and much more politely than I could have) some of my thoughts when I read about the book to which...Read More

Thanks to Kentucky Cases for giving the “heads up” on Navigating Emotional Roadblocks for Effective Mediation set for April 17, 2007 in Lexington, KY. It is bound to be a fabulous program, featuring Dr. Dan Shapiro, associate director of the Harvard Negotiation Project, and author of Beyond Reason: Listening To Emotions As You Negotiate.Read More

Settle It Now Negotiation Blog turns to Robert B. Cialdini’s Six Rules of Influence That Could Make Or Break Your Next [Commercial] Negotiation. The same principles apply to negotiation in any mediation and this post is excellent. Check it out.Read More

The AAML annual meeting in Chicago was filled with the best yet CLE. I often return from these meetings feeling the material is indispensable; this year was over-the-top fabulous. I am not unaware of the furor in some circles about blogging the content of paid seminars over the internet. Of more concern to me is...Read More

One of the reasons I like writing this blawg is that I learn so much. Just as teaching a CLE is the best way to learn a topic thoroughly, researching online resources and posting about them is a discipline that brings much more information across my desk than I would otherwise discover.Read More

From Victoria Pynchon: “I just noticed this post & agree with what you say. I, too, feel the tension between negotiation and mediation. As my friend and mentor Ken Cloke says, there are 5 responses to conflict — conflict avoidance, conflict suppression, conflict resolution, conflict transformation, and conflict transcendence. As women, we are trained by...Read More