Making An Important Decision About Mom But Can’t Agree With Sibling? Elder Mediation Will Help

How many of us have adult sibling relationships that we sort of tolerate or have maybe even swept under the rug. What happens when your parents age and maybe even die and you have to make some important decisions with that sibling? Even with the best of relationships, these kinds of decisions bring [...]

Financially Complex Divorces Should Consider Mediation

In more financially complex divorces, lawyers and clients often get muddled up in experts and charts and law which leads the case to become high conflict which in turn makes settlement so difficult or next to impossible leaving an expensive trial to be the inevitable next step. In these cases it is so important [...]

Don’t Let An Attorney Sabotage Your Mediation

Glad to see I am not the only one who thinks attorneys often sabotage the mediation process. Good attorneys encourage negotiation, exchange of ideas, and learning to communicate better. These skills are necessary in business, in family, with friends, and with all people in all situations. The faster you realize the empowerment these skills bring [...]

Communicate with Respect and Civillity

Paul Newman had a line in the move “Cool Hand Luke.” In a standoff with the police, he yells out, “what we have here is a failure to communicate.” There are times when I wonder if in our day and age, “what we have here is a failure to communicate civilly.”
Years ago I [...]

Online Arbitration

ZipCourt, Inc. launched its online courtroom service today to address the growing need for fast, efficient dispute resolution. It is basically arbitration online and deals mostly with commercial cases and some civil matters. Not for cases like employment discrimination or family issues – the hotbeds of dispute. I never liked arbitration – it does not [...]

Seminar – Tuesday, October 25th – “Not My Kid”: The Bully/Victim Dynamic

Date: Tuesday, October 25th
Time: 7:00-9:00 pm
Location: Christ the King
821 S. Dale Mabry Highway – Tampa, FL 33609
Price: A freewill offering will be collected at the door. We do not want money to deter parents from attending this seminar.

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Step Outside What You Know To Solve Your Dispute

I dont know if any of you watch Fairly Legal, the show about mediation but I so identify with Kate Reed, the mediator. I left the law because of the injustices; there isn’t always a winner or loser; NOTHING is ever black and white and I am really good at helping people see what [...]

Solution Focused Mediation

This is our basic style for so many mediations and facilitations. We are always searching out and digging deep to find common goals, priorities, concerns or any commonality that can help us move forward with the people and the issues with which we are dealing. The question asked and discussed in this post [...]

Mediation = Low Risk and Giant Payoff

Interest based negotiation is such an important part of problem solving. Too often people get locked up in positions and fail to ask the key question(s) that would reveal the underlying interests. But how do we get to those interests? Not in litigation. Once you engage in warfare, there will [...]

The Breakdown of Compromise?

So is it really the death of compromise as Chris Cillizza of the Post seems to state in his recent article. Whether it is the Minnesota government shutdown, the NFL player lockout or more recently the NBA player lockout, Cillizzla says compromise seems to be a bad word. Why? Cillizza states [...]

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