Making ADR mandatory does not guarantee that cases settle, but you do create more opportunities for the rational assessment of litigation risk and to agree on remedies that the courts cannot provide.
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The California State Bar Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct has issued a proposed opinion attempting to draw the line between unethical misrepresentations during negotiations, and permissible "puffing." Using...
By Joe MarkowitzThis article originally appeared in the Conflict Resolution Center Internatonal Newsletter. Re-published with permission. I meet Snjezana Mrse at the Fourth European Conference on Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution in Belfast....
By Paul WahrhaftigMediators often become evangelists for negotiated resolution of conflict, believing mediation or other forms of diplomacy to be superior to all other forms of conflict resolution in all circumstances, and...
By Joe Markowitz
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