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Your Judgment May be Impairing You
July 9, 2013
Judgment is a tool that actually impairs a mediator. While it’s human nature to judge people as dangerous or not, the notion of good or bad is one that only makes us feel superior in our ability to pass judgment on them. As the quote says, it does nothing for us. As mediators, listing to people tell their stories, the trained human response is to decide which story we believe, or which seems right, or more credible. The mediator’s job, in contrast to those things is to understand. To understand...
July 9, 2013
Judgment is a tool that actually impairs a mediator. While it’s human nature to judge people as dangerous or not, the notion of good or bad is one that only makes us feel superior in our ability to pass judgment on them. As the quote says, it does nothing for us. As mediators, listing to people tell their stories, the trained human response is to decide which story we believe, or which seems right, or more credible. The mediator’s job, in contrast to those things is to understand. To understand...
Social Media and Jury Duty
July 9, 2013
For those of us who have ever served on a jury we know that our job is try to decide who is right and wrong, and assess damages...
July 9, 2013
For those of us who have ever served on a jury we know that our job is try to decide who is right and wrong, and assess damages...
Trial By Preview
July 9, 2013
It has been an obsession of modern civil procedure to design ways to reveal more before trial about what will happen during...
July 9, 2013
It has been an obsession of modern civil procedure to design ways to reveal more before trial about what will happen during...
Private Equity Firm Buys Intuit for $1 Billion
July 8, 2013
Private equity firm Thoma Bravo has struck a deal to acquire Intuit Financial Services, an Intuit Inc. unit that provides...
July 8, 2013
Private equity firm Thoma Bravo has struck a deal to acquire Intuit Financial Services, an Intuit Inc. unit that provides...
Med Students Learn How Graphics Can Effectively Communicate: Why Not Mediators?
July 8, 2013
Those of you who have been following with me the pictograph path (using images to communicate) may guess that I was happy to learn of a program at Penn State College of Medicine. From the Penn State Web page:Since 2009, fourth-year medical students at Penn State College of Medicine have created comics as part of a course called “Graphic Storytelling and Medical Narratives.” The course was developed to show fourth-year medical students how graphics and text can be used to effectively communicate...
July 8, 2013
Those of you who have been following with me the pictograph path (using images to communicate) may guess that I was happy to learn of a program at Penn State College of Medicine. From the Penn State Web page:Since 2009, fourth-year medical students at Penn State College of Medicine have created comics as part of a course called “Graphic Storytelling and Medical Narratives.” The course was developed to show fourth-year medical students how graphics and text can be used to effectively communicate...
Are Young Lawyers Less Willing to Negotiate Agreements?
July 8, 2013
According to one of my lawyer friends, older lawyers are complaining that younger lawyers are less willing to work at negotiating their way out of cases and conflicts. They hold fast to demands and don’t want to give an inch. Given the plethora of law school courses on mediation, negotiation, and the like, one would think that younger lawyers would be more willing to find solutions to conflicts. I speculate that with the tight job market, the recalcitrant lawyer fears cutting a deal, going back...
July 8, 2013
According to one of my lawyer friends, older lawyers are complaining that younger lawyers are less willing to work at negotiating their way out of cases and conflicts. They hold fast to demands and don’t want to give an inch. Given the plethora of law school courses on mediation, negotiation, and the like, one would think that younger lawyers would be more willing to find solutions to conflicts. I speculate that with the tight job market, the recalcitrant lawyer fears cutting a deal, going back...
Negotiation Law Blog Lives On and On and On at The Library Of Congress
July 8, 2013
The LOC describes this archive as a “selective collection of authoritative sites” associated with law schools, research institutes, think tanks, and other expertise-based organizations. “These blogs contain journal-style entries, articles and essays, discussions, and comments on emerging legal issues, national and international,” the LOC says. No matter the fact that the joy of blogging is in the . . . . blogging, it's gratifying to be recognized as having contributed something valuable...
July 8, 2013
The LOC describes this archive as a “selective collection of authoritative sites” associated with law schools, research institutes, think tanks, and other expertise-based organizations. “These blogs contain journal-style entries, articles and essays, discussions, and comments on emerging legal issues, national and international,” the LOC says. No matter the fact that the joy of blogging is in the . . . . blogging, it's gratifying to be recognized as having contributed something valuable...
Pricing and Framing: When Are We Likely to Pay More for Products?
July 8, 2013
I think by this time almost every marketing strategy is tried as to how goods are priced: We are told that today is the last day of the sale; we are given the price at which the good was previously sold (this was $20 and now it's $14.95); or Gap tells us that the 30% off is for 4 days only (right). I want to write about one strategy firms use to increase the sale of a product. This strategy involves framing: the product is presented in the context of other, related products. We'll see that "relativity"...
July 8, 2013
I think by this time almost every marketing strategy is tried as to how goods are priced: We are told that today is the last day of the sale; we are given the price at which the good was previously sold (this was $20 and now it's $14.95); or Gap tells us that the 30% off is for 4 days only (right). I want to write about one strategy firms use to increase the sale of a product. This strategy involves framing: the product is presented in the context of other, related products. We'll see that "relativity"...
VerdictSearch Puts On a New Face
July 8, 2013
VerdictSearch.com, which offers verdict and settlement news and research, has a new user interface that facilitates access...
July 8, 2013
VerdictSearch.com, which offers verdict and settlement news and research, has a new user interface that facilitates access...
Law School Winners and Losers in the Applications Game [Video]
July 7, 2013
Bloomberg Law has put together a short video called "7 Things You Don't Know About Law School Admissions" describing some of the surprising stats resulting from the historic drop in application numbers this year. For instance, even though most schools are experiencing significant declines, several low ranked schools have actually seen their application numbers spike. And while Yale is still the toughest ticket in town, there are other schools where it's almost de facto open admissions.
July 7, 2013
Bloomberg Law has put together a short video called "7 Things You Don't Know About Law School Admissions" describing some of the surprising stats resulting from the historic drop in application numbers this year. For instance, even though most schools are experiencing significant declines, several low ranked schools have actually seen their application numbers spike. And while Yale is still the toughest ticket in town, there are other schools where it's almost de facto open admissions.
