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Mediation lessons from the backyard
May 01, 2024 - MAY 1, 2024 column Mediation lessons from the backyard BY GREG DERIN Amy Tan is a renowned author pro- foundly observant of nature, human and oth...
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Mediator confidentiality: When does it end?
May 01, 2024 - MAY 1, 2024 column Mediator confidentiality: When does it end? BY ANGELA REDDOCK-WRIGHT When parties to a legal dispute choose to mediate their ...
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Is summary judgement appropriate in single or few incident hostile work environment cases in California?
May 01, 2024 - Abe Melamed is a mediator, arbitrator and special master with Signature Resolution. He predominantly handles employment, sexual assault/ abuse ...
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Pre-litigation mediation: strategies for success
May 01, 2024 - MAY 1, 2024 column Pre-litigation mediation: strategies for success BY JOE LOVRETOVICH In my mediation practice, I am struck by the increasing n...
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Assessing emotional distress damages in mediation
May 01, 2024 - Jonathan Andrews is an employment law neutral with Signature Resolution. He can be reached at jandrews@signature- resolution.com. MAY 1, 2024 ...
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To Zoom or not to Zoom? That’s the question.
May 01, 2024 - By Amy D. Hogue is a mediator at Signature Resolution, and a retired complex court judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court. She can b...
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The eyes of an immigrant
April 11, 2024 - Shutterstock Many cultures relate ver-sions of a parable in which a group of un-sighted men encounter an elephant and seek to learn its qualities ...
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The ADR ethics bill is a good start, but the key issues remain unaddressed
April 02, 2024 - This art was created with the assistance of Shutterstock AI tools P rimarily in response to fall- out from the Girardi scan- dal, California legis...
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The power of words
April 01, 2024 - Shutterstock Greg Derin is a mediator and arbi- trator at Signature Resolution. He can be reached at gderin@signa- tureresolution.com. P assover b...
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LePage Bakery case: Supreme Court hears argument on FAA Transportation Exemption
March 20, 2024 - Shutterstock O n Feb. 20, the United States Supreme Court heard oral argument in Bissonnette v. LePage Bak- eries, a case that could have a sig- nif...
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Do women judges judge differently?
March 01, 2024 - When Sandra Day O’Connor was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1981, it was as if the tectonic plates of justice had shifted. Never before h...
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Prometheus Re-Bound? The Future of Copyright in the Time of AI
February 28, 2024 - We have a complicated relation-ship with folklore and mythol-ogy. Reflecting on ancient tales can inform our understanding of the contemporary world ...