ADR and Self-Represented Litigants
The Center for American Progress has published a paper, “Grounds for Objection: Causes and Consequences of America’s Pro Se Crisis and How to Solve the Problem of Unrepresented Litigants” that...
View ArticleProfessor Seeks Domestic Violence Screening Tools
Prof. Susan Raines of Kennesaw State University is seeking examples of instruments used by mediation programs to screen for domestic violence. She writes: “As Georgia considers revising its screening...
View ArticleUniform Mediation Act – Ten Years Later
The JAMS Dispute Resolution Alert has a good article by Justin Kelly about the ten-year anniversary of the Uniform Mediation Act. Having participated in some of the deliberations during the drafting of...
View ArticleLeaving an ADR Legacy
Court ADR lost a champion yesterday when Judge Harris H. Agnew, RSI’s long-time Executive Committee Chair, passed away after a long struggle to regain his health. Judge Agnew led by example, with...
View ArticleMediation and Non-Violent Communication
As a mediator who likes to think that I help parties understand and work with their emotions and their underlying needs and interests, the training I attended last month on Nonviolent Communication...
View ArticleFarewell to Skadden Fellow
For blog readers who are used to getting the latest foreclosure mediation news here, I am sorry to say that Heather Scheiwe Kulp – foreclosure ADR guru and RSI Skadden Fellow – is leaving RSI for a...
View ArticleNegotiation ABCs and the “Fiscal Cliff”
To those of us who work in ADR and who know something about the negotiations process, the current wrangling in Washington about the “fiscal cliff” is not a surprise. Consider these familiar ABCs that...
View ArticleTwelve Hours of Conflict
The Twelve Hours of Conflict For the first hour of conflict, my neutral gave to me a round table with a great view For the second hour of conflict, my neutral gave to me two succinct summaries And a...
View Article“Just Court ADR” Wins CPR Award
I am thrilled to report that Just Court ADR won the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution’s (CPR Institute) “Best Electronic Media About ADR Award.” CPR’s esteemed award is...
View ArticleWhat Might We Learn from the Post-Mediation Shooting in Phoenix?
Neutrals across the country must have experienced a mutual shudder as we read about a party leaving a Phoenix mediation, lying in wait for the other party and his lawyer to leave, and then shooting...
View ArticleBenefiting from a Smooth Transition
Those of us in the ADR field know that coming together and coming apart are times that can be fraught with conflict whether these transitions involve individuals, families, corporations or...
View ArticleIs Getting It in Writing a Universal Best Practice?
The New Jersey Supreme Court recently ruled that agreement terms must be written and signed before the parties leave a mediation in order to be enforced. Experienced mediators are familiar with the...
View ArticleTwelve Hours of Conflict — Some Seasonal Silliness
Here again is RSI’s seasonal parody of the Twelve Day of Christmas. Enjoy! For the first hour of conflict, my neutral gave to me a round table with a great view For the second hour of conflict, my...
View ArticleSweet Deal on National ADR Conference
For the past 15 years, I have attended the American Bar Association Dispute Resolution Section’s annual conference, and I plan to go this year, too. The ABA bills it as the world’s largest ADR...
View ArticleA Professional Communicator?
One way that we mediators sometimes describe ourselves is as professional communicators. We are skilled at listening deeply, speaking clearly and helping people in conflict form a communication bridge....
View ArticleRemembering Dick Salem
The field of Alternative Dispute Resolution lost one of our founders this weekend when Dick Salem died. Dick’s core values led him to work in dispute resolution before it was a field. While serving...
View Article“Hot-Tubbing” and ADR?
Did you know there is an ADR process called “hot-tubbing?” This was news to me when I heard it mentioned last week at the Court ADR Symposium (which occurs every year on the day before the ABA Dispute...
View ArticleMediation “Theology”
A mediation colleague in Chicago, Bob Berliner, recently used the term “theology” to describe the various schools of thought regarding mediation, such as evaluative, facilitative and transformative. He...
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Resolution System Institute’s Evening of Firsts
Susan Yates and Judge Morton Denlow listen to Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan Last Wednesday was a great evening for RSI! We held our first-ever “friendraising” event and presented our...
View ArticleOne-Day Divorce in San Diego Court
I love Richard Zorza’s Access to Justice Blog, especially when he covers programs like the one offered by San Diego, California courts to accomplish divorce in a single day. Zorza cites a New York...
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