I Don’t Like Bullies
by Dan Dooley for Ex Juris ADR Centres “I Don’t Like Bullies” “Hard bargaining wastes valuable time” according to Katie Shonk in the Decemb...
08 December, 2021
John Lennon, Chuck Berry and Creative Conflict Resolution
by Dan Dooley for Ex Juris ADR Centres In a September 2001 article in Mediate.com entitled “Developing Creativity and Intuition for Resolving Confl...
03 September, 2021
Mediating Wrongful Dismissal Actions
By Doug MacLeod Wrongful dismissal cases settle at mediation for various reasons such as: The combined legal costs associated with the case are expect...
15 June, 2021
Letting Go of Blame
“Of this I am certain, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.” So said Winston Ch...
24 March, 2021
The Mediator’s “Personal Qualities”
That quality which should perhaps be most sought after in a mediator was captured by Daniel Bowling and David Hoffman in their 2003 publication entitl...
26 February, 2021
Estate Disputes: The Financial Risk of Being the “Loser” Who Pays Costs
When I was a young lawyer many years ago, I heard a senior lawyer jokingly pronounce with respect to an estate that was in litigation: “Let not the ...
01 February, 2021
Is Your Client Ready to Mediate?
Prudent lawyers do not recommend that clients waste money pursuing litigation steps or a strategy that is doomed to fail. Prudent lawyers should not r...
22 January, 2021
The Lying Disputant
During a mediation caucus, one of the disputing parties admits that to gain a negotiating advantage he or she lied during the joint session. The media...
11 January, 2021
Private Adjudication
Not all disputes, or discrete issues in disputes, can be successfully mediated. Entrenched positions, unrealistic expectations and “winner-take-...
11 December, 2020
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