Tag: Real Estate Mediation

  • Task #14: Looking at the previous two questions, where do you think THEIR perspective differs from your own.

    Task #14: Looking at the previous two questions, where do you think THEIR perspective differs from your own. Looking at the previous two questions below, where do you think THEIR perspective differs from your own. Task #12:  What important understanding did you think you had when you originally got involved together? Task #13: In a…

  • How to stay on the cutting edge of mediation

    How to stay on the cutting edge of mediation The cutting edge of mediation. Recently, I wrote an article for our local Bar Association Journal on why someone would want to join the ADR section of the Bar.  As the new Chair of the ADR section, was also needed to describe how membership has benefited…

  • Task #13: In a dispute, how did the relationship change?

    Task #13: In a dispute, how did the relationship change? How did the relationship change? The resolution of a dispute does not just occur on the day of the mediation.   Each participant to mediation needs to prepare their own strategy for negotiation in the settlement.  Based on my experience as a mediator, these are a…

  • Task #12: What important understanding did you think you had when you originally got involved together?

    Task #12: What important understanding did you think you had when you originally got involved together? What important understanding did you think you had when you originally got involved together? The resolution of a dispute does not just occur on the day of the mediation.   Each participant to mediation needs to prepare their own strategy…

  • Painful proposed cuts, but potential for more mediations.

    Painful proposed cuts to the Courts, but potential for more mediations. Painful proposed cuts to the Courts, but there are potential for more mediations.   Today I attended a presentation of the “Justice Partners of the Contra Costa Superior Court.”    The presenters were Judges Becton and Goode.  The painful topic was the potential impact of…

  • Task #11: What’s wrong with the other side’s case?

    Task #11: What’s wrong with the other side’s case? The resolution of a dispute does not just occur on the day of the mediation.   Each participant to mediation needs to prepare their own strategy for negotiation in the settlement.  Based on my experience as a mediator, these are a collection of tasks each participant needs…

  • Task #10: What is the weakness in your case?

    Task #10: What are the weaknesses in your case? The resolution of a dispute does not just occur on the day of the mediation.   Each participant to mediation needs to prepare their own strategy for negotiation in the settlement.  Based on my experience as a mediator, these are a collection of tasks each participant needs…

  • Task #9: At what point will you know that the potential agreement is better than going to court?

    Task #9: At what point will you know that the potential agreement is better than going to court? The resolution of a dispute does not just occur on the day of the mediation.   Each participant to mediation needs to prepare their own strategy for negotiation in the settlement.  Based on my experience as a mediator,…

  • Task #4: How are you going to deal with them after the dispute?

    Task #4: How are you going to deal with them after the dispute? The resolution of a dispute does not just occur on the day of the mediation.   Each participant to mediation needs to prepare their own strategy for negotiation in the settlement.  Based on my experience as a mediator, these are a collection of…

  • My Purpose for blogging: Where to we go from here?

    Where to we go from here? My primary purpose for this blog is to inform practitioners and participants in mediation, negotiations, other forms of alternative dispute resolution and risk management. I want to provide a mostly systematic overview of the full range of dispute resolution options: risk management or the avoidance and minimization of conflicts,…