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Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

The longer a mediation lasts the greater the likelihood that it will be successful. This conclusion is anecdotal, but based upon long experience. A mediation is successful even when the case does not ...

The Mediation Guide by Dr. Ralph Steele combines mediation theory, process and strategy to assist mediators in refining the mediation process to more effectively facilitate successful dispute ...

To learn the steps of a mediation process and see that it is just a more formalized way of doing the basic steps of problem-solving Put the word "conflict" on the board. Hand out paper and pencils.

Mediation is often viewed by lawyers as a "this" or "that" on the spectrum from facilitative to evaluative. In reality, experienced neutrals view mediation as a process customized to the needs of the ...

Tulsa’s City Council Rules and Order of Business state in part that councilors “pledge to be reasonable, responsible, positive, receptive and courteous in all their dealings, to devote their time, ...

In a world rife with conflict—commercial, interpersonal, organizational and beyond—the need for effective dispute resolution has never been greater. Judge Morton Denlow, a retired U.S. Magistrate ...

While the resolution of some recent Fayette County homicide cases has taken years, the new use of mediation in Fayette County has allowed some cases to move much quicker, including the case of a ...