Time is Money!

One Saturday afternoon, my husband and vegetated and watch a dreadful movie called “In Time “(released October 2011) . The theme of the movie is that time is literally money. In this science fiction thriller, In 2169, people are genetically engineered to stop aging on their 25th birthday. Everyone has [Read More]

By |August 11th, 2023|Conflict resolution|

A Different Way to Negotiate!

Our recent book club discussion featured Split the Pie: A Radical New Way to Negotiate by Barry Nalebuff (HarperCollins, New York 2022). While I understand the author’s concept, I am not sure if I am able to implement it as a mediator. In the simplest of terms, in a  two-party [Read More]

The Downsides to Negotiating via Video Conference!

A recent survey ( NADN-2022-SurveyOfLitigators-ViewsOnODR[64656] )  conducted by the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals found that prior to the pandemic and lock down in March 2020 only about 2% of litigation attorneys had ever attended a mediation or arbitration using a video conference platform.  But thanks to the pandemic, as [Read More]

By |June 16th, 2023|Mediations|

Honking is NOT Free Speech!

Every once in a while, I read about a case that has nothing to do with mediation other than creativity and feel compelled to write about it. As I have noted previously, there is one thing about lawyers and/or their clients: they can be very creative. The Ninth Circuit Court [Read More]

By |May 12th, 2023|Court Cases|

The Future Has Become the Present!

This past Sunday, 60 Minutes had a segment on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and more specifically, on BARD – the AI program created by Google. During the segment, Scott Pelley asked BARD to create a short story, and a poem which it did in seconds. And as you might recall, several [Read More]

By |April 21st, 2023|Research|
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