We Leave a Trail, Florida Mediator Reminds
When you participate in a mediation as a party, advocate or neutral, you leave a trail. The trail an attorney or party creates within a particular mediation can be used to determine your goal or preferred path to reach that goal. Of course, signs ca... Read More
Nationally Known Mediator Uses Baseball Metaphor for Mutuality
The healthiest way to determine home plate is for the parties to negotiate toward it. The good faith negotiating that brings the parties to the ballpark can, likewise, bring them home. The key to this negotiation is mutuality, and the give and take o... Read More
Dissolution, Divorce at a Discounted Cost
Money is often at the heart of the discussion between a wife and husband who are divorcing. Mediation can offer advantages, but a divorce attorney must know how to bring the parties to the table. Here are a couple of ideas from Sandy. Read More
Florida Mediator Asks, 'Can We Talk?'
Sometimes, in the business world, mediation presents another invaluable opportunity – the chance for the respective decision-makers to talk directly to one another under the shroud of mediation confidentiality and privilege.
Provided the parties hav... Read More
Florida mediator writes on equine law
At first it appears 773.02 provides all inclusive protection for the equine facility, owners and professionals. However, there is a hole in 773.02 large enough to drive a van of lawyers through. The five words “Except as provided in s. 773.03” practi... Read More
Florida Mediator Larry Watson Inventor of Mediated Case Management
By John Upchurch
Mediated Case Management, as designed by Florida mediator Larry Watson, is an innovative program for getting participants in complex, multiparty, multi-issue lawsuits quickly focused on the core disputes making up the overall conf... Read More
Florida Mediator Discusses What's Going on in the Other Room
Mediation is more than just what goes on between the interests, groups, sides or rooms. It is more than the sharing, real negotiation, posturing and debate. It includes what goes on within each room. And perhaps that is the most valuable part of the... Read More
