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Family Law Mediation with Pro Se Parties: Traps for the Unwary

March 26, 2018 / Blog

by Alison Silber, Esq. Family law practitioners and litigants alike frequently criticize the court system for its capacity to foment and protract conflict, reinforce the oppositional relationship between parties, and necessitate cumbersome and expensive discovery. Mediation is often praised as the reasonable, intelligent alternative to family law litigation, and my own practice bears this out. […]

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Applying Negotiation Skills in the Foreign Service

February 7, 2018 / Blog, Stories from the Field

This is the third blog is a new series called “From the Field”. In this series we spotlight stories and insights from former students, friends, and colleagues who are working in the field of dispute resolution. by Matilda Jansen Brolin LLM ’16 A year after graduating from Harvard Law School (HLS) with an LL.M

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Fallacies Of ADR Career Advice: Fallacy #5

November 10, 2015 / Blog / Careers

This is the final post in a five-part blog series by HNMCP Clinical Instructor and Lecturer on Law Heather Scheiwe Kulp on advice to law students and young professionals interested in ADR as a career. The series is intended to examine the fallacies our students often hear, and to give us tools for both combating the fallacies

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Fallacies of ADR Career Advice: Fallacy #4

November 4, 2015 / Blog / Careers

This is the fourth in a five-part blog series by HNMCP Clinical Instructor and Lecturer on Law Heather Scheiwe Kulp on advice to law students and young professionals interested in ADR as a career. The series is intended to examine the fallacies our students often hear, and to give us tools for both combating the fallacies and responding

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Fallacies of ADR Career Advice: Fallacy #3

October 28, 2015 / Blog / Careers

This is the third in a five-part blog series on advice to law students and young professionals interested in ADR as a career. The series is intended to examine the fallacies our students often hear, and to give us tools for both combating the fallacies and responding with more positive advice. Comments are welcomed! By Heather Scheiwe Kulp

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Fallacies of ADR Career Advice: Fallacy #2

October 21, 2015 / Blog / Careers

This is the second in a five-part blog series by HNMCP Clinical Instructor and Lecturer on Law Heather Scheiwe Kulp on advice to law students and young professionals interested in ADR as a career. The series is intended to examine the fallacies our students often hear, and to give us tools for both combating the fallacies and responding

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Fallacies Underlying Common ADR Career Advice Given to Young Professionals

October 14, 2015 / Blog / Careers

This is the first in a five-part blog series on advice to law students and young professionals interested in ADR as a career. The series is intended to examine the fallacies our students often hear, and to give us tools for both combating the fallacies and responding with more positive advice. Comments are welcomed!

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Reimagining Adjudication: ADR as a Laboratory

May 20, 2015 / Blog, Dialogue & Demonstration / Diaglogue & Demonstration

Ferguson. Staten Island. Cleveland. A national outcry against police brutality. A resounding call that Black Lives Matter. Not a moment, but a movement, to question the legal system: its actors, its tools, and its available remedies. Responding to this cry for systemic revision, Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow and Yale Law School Dean Robert

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A Protest of Your Own Convictions

January 15, 2015 / Blog, Dialogue & Demonstration / Diaglogue & Demonstration

The Garner and Brown grand jury decisions heralded into the spotlight the language of #BlackLivesMatter, #HandsUpDontShoot and #ICantBreathe. Emblazed on posters, twitter, and many of our psyches, these were not responses to a unique social and political moment, but rather the headlines of a movement generations in the making. As Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) professionals,

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