“My job is dealing with angry CFOs [Chief Operating Officers],” says Linda*, a director at a major investment bank. Wow. Many of the stories I hear from my clients and students involve some form of ...

In this article, commercial mediator Myrna Barakat Friedman enlists several of her colleagues to discuss 'party-related' challenges they encounter as mediators and helpful insights on how to address ...

Commercial leasing disputes can be complex and costly, often involving significant financial stakes and long-term relationships. Mediation offers an effective alternative to litigation, providing a ...

Richard Gunn writes about the concept of mediations: for Marx, mediations of the contradictions inherent in the commodity-form (the central contradiction is between use-value and exchange-value, and ...

Today’s post explores the role of body language in virtual or remote mediations, where mediators see participants in a box and on a screen as opposed to in a chair and in person. Understanding how ...

In 2000, I was involved in trying to develop a system for online mediation. The broadband infrastructure to support such a system did not exist, so we were 20 years early. It took the COVID-19 ...

A new nonprofit organization, the Outagamie Conflict Resolution Center aims to begin facilitating mediations within the next few months. The center will work with Outagamie County Circuit Court to ...