April 10, 2012
Intention v. Impact: Communicating Via Email
It’s not uncommon at the beginning of a mediation process for people to choose as one of their process rules, “No substantive emails.” When I...
It’s not uncommon at the beginning of a mediation process for people to choose as one of their process rules, “No substantive emails.” When I...
Mediation is a transparent process, which means clients are required to share information relevant to the matter at hand—simply, informally, and relatively quickly. In contrast,...
Back in the 90s, there was a movement in the dispute resolution community to merge legal and mental health services into one mediation process. I’ve...
When people call my office for a free 15-minute phone consultation, they commonly ask, “Are we good candidates for mediation?” And often my response is:...
There are many elements we can focus on in analyzing the cost of divorce, but I’m writing to offer some thoughts on the billable hour....
When people need to divide retirement funds after their divorce, if those funds are in a 401(k) or a pension, usually people have to go...
Since my last post, dated April 23rd, I’ve had some time to ponder the feedback I’ve gotten about my “happiest” clients who didn’t engage my...
I would like to be able to write that my most satisfied clients, the ones who expressed the highest level of happiness with their process...
In the past couple of years, the term Consensual Dispute Resolution has developed in the legal community as a way of differentiating certain legal services...
One of the benefits of working out your divorce or probate matter in a non-adversarial process like mediation or Collaborative Practice is that the people...
Unmani is exceptionally gifted at mediating difficult situations. At critical moments when the dialogues seemed about to derail, Unmani masterfully steered us back on course. Her calming influence, insights on the legal requirements, and laser focus on the relevant issues very positively influenced the outcome of our divorce settlement and subsequent mediation qualitatively and quantitatively. In fact, my ex-wife and I would not have the solid, congenial co-parenting relationship we have today without key conversations—including very difficult ones—we had only because it was safe to have them with Unmani present.