Last semester, one of my students took the wrong take home exam. So, I prepared a special make up exam which was simple yet required a lot of thought: Rank in terms of importance five of the nine model standards in the Model Standards of Conduct for Mediators and explain [Read More]
Happy New Year! May 2024 bring you health, happiness and prosperity… and the keeping of your resolutions! Typically- at this time of year- many of us make resolutions that we hope to keep throughout the year. They may pertain to keeping fit, losing weight, not drinking as much alcohol, attaining [Read More]
Recently, I attended a webinar sponsored by the Beverly Hills Bar Association entitled “ Ethical Obligations: How Bias Plays a role in our Decision- Making” presented by Mindy Gulati, Esq., Founder and CEO of Fundamental Advisory. Initially, Ms. Gulati discussed the notions of explicit and implicit Biases as well as [Read More]
A few weeks ago, I posted a blog on the importance of the words we use during a mediation or any negotiation. For example, rather than using labels “the other side” or “Plaintiff” or “defendant”, we should use the actual names of the people involved. As chance would have it, [Read More]
My husband decided to purchase windshield wiper blades at Costco for our Audi. A few days later, when we took the Audi in for repair, we asked the repair person to put on the new blades. He advised that they were the wrong ones and would order the correct ones [Read More]
Recently, I attended the Annual Conference of the Southern California Mediation Association. One of the workshops intrigued me as it was all about the words we use. Entitled “Words Matter: What to leave at the Courthouse Steps” , the speakers Dr. Debra Dupree and Harold Coleman, Jr. Esq. discussed how [Read More]
The Judicial Council of California Civil Jury Instructions- Instruction 5009 on Pre-deliberations- admonishes jurors who are about to retire to decide the verdict that while the judge knows that the jurors will not do so, he/she is “required to advise you that you must not base your decisions on chance, [Read More]
Typically, I post blogs about a recent mediation or about mediation theory or practice. But today I am posting about a scam. We have all heard about various scams in which the scoundrels attempt to have someone give valuable information over the telephone or perhaps hire an attorney and convince [Read More]
