Category Archives: Negotiation

3 simple steps to planning a negotiation

Negotiation planning

Fail to plan … Most lawyers at mediation settlement meetings of money claims thoroughly prepare their cases.  They have been dealing with the it for months if not years and know it backwards. However, there is one thing many neglect to prepare and plan for -  how they are going to negotiate. A surprising number…

What lawyers can do for mediators.

Links to two interesting articles from American mediator Diane Levin – ‘What can lawyers do for mediators?’ and ‘What can mediators do for lawyers?’. To quote Diane “Mediation is not about holding hands and singing Kumbaya.”

Role of the Mediator and autistic hostility

A review of Charon QC’s podcast with Victoria Pynchon discussing autistic hostility and the challenge for mediators to re-open channels of communication.