The practice and culture of practicing law
In 1994, the United States District Court for the District of Vermont adopted an Early Neutral Evaluation program. It required that nearly every civil case on its docket be “evaluated” before being set for trial. I was fortunate to be Read More …
If there is one thing that almost all lawyers do, it is negotiate. Business lawyers do it. Litigators do it do it. Real estate lawyers do it. I suspect that even patent lawyers do it. Most of us think we Read More …
If you use mediation, it’s useful to step back once and a while and think about why it works to be sure that you’re taking full advantage of what it has to offer. (If you don’t use it: “why not?”) As Read More …
Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts By Annie Duke (Portfolio/Penguin: New York 2018). As a lawyer who strives to give clients objective advice, reading Thinking in Bets was a refreshing challenge. I am Read More …
Mediation as a Human Resource Tool I happened across an article recently entitled, How to Tackle Employee Disputes at Small Business, from Great Britain’s Telegraph. The writer, Anna Isaac, argues that “[u]gly conversations and lost working days can be avoided Read More …
by RICH CASSIDY on JULY 17, 2011 I belong to a LinkedIn Group, Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Professionals. Today, I read a question there that caused me to reformulate some old thinking in a new way. Here is the question, Read More …
by RICH CASSIDY on MARCH 26, 2010 The Collaborative Law movement is some 20 years old, yet remains unknown to many lawyers and clients. The idea is relatively simple: the clients, and their lawyers, commit themselves to trying to settle a dispute on Read More …