Mediation Blog
Your Working Life Is Short: Why waste it on Litigation?
The other day I conducted a mediation between a non-English speaking plaintiff and a used car dealer. The issue was whether the dealer had misrepresented certain aspects of the sale to the plaintiff. We were [Read More]
Deception or B. S.?
The Harvard Program on Negotiation (PON) blog posted an article about deception in negotiations. Entitled, “Ethics In Negotiation: How tthe Articleo Deal with Deception at the Bargaining Table” by Pon Staff (August 9, 2022), the [Read More]
Nothing to Lose (or to prove) and All to Gain!
Like many folks, I watched Serena Williams play in the second round of the U. S. Open Tennis Tournament against Anett Kontaveit, ranked No. 2 in the world. Serena Williams won. In her interview with [Read More]
Watch the Body Language!
I was watching the CBS morning news the other day and as the program neared its end, the anchors talked for a few minutes with Vanessa Van Edwards, an expert on body language and the [Read More]
A dollar for Chalking
A Dollar for Chalking! In May 2019, I posted a blog about a plaintiff who challenged a parking ticket on the grounds that chalking her tires by the parking police in the City of Saginaw, [Read More]
Which is Better? To Be Seen or To Be Heard?
Many years ago, Albert Mehrabian, now a professor at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) determined that approximately 55% of our communication is non-verbal; 38% of it is vocal (tone) and 7% is [Read More]
