What’s In a Name?
As many of you know, the conference rooms in our Maitland mediation center are all named after various species of birds. The name of one room quite…
“Never Cut What You Can Untie”
– Joseph Joubert (1754 – 1824)
In my last blog post, I wrote about “ Dutch Auctions and Texas Shoot-Outs ” as a way to resolve disputes…
Mediation Preparation: Yes, You Should Be Preparing!

Gone are the days when it is okay to walk into mediation armed only with your handy-dandy legal pad and a pen. Actually I am not sure that was ever…
Dutch Auctions and Texas Shoot-Outs

As my colleague Rodney Max says in his most recent blog post on the “Mediator’s Proposal”, when impasse occurs in a mediation, “it’s just…
Mediator’s Proposal
In this series principal Rodney A. Max discusses “breaking impasse” as it relates to closing the deal. In complex cases (including mass torts and…
Court Direction
In this series principal Rodney A. Max discusses “breaking impasse” as it relates to closing the deal. In complex cases (including mass torts and…