Monthly Archives: November 2016

First, assess your options for resolving disputes

Posted on November 10, 2016 by Michael Zeytoonian

I’ve heard people who are in a business or employment dispute often complain, “I’m stuck in this dispute, and now we’ll have to litigate. I have no options.” If you take nothing else from this blog post, know this: They are usually wrong; there are options. Most people in disputes don’t know they have options and if they do still …

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A word about “Good Counsel”

Posted on November 8, 2016 by Michael Zeytoonian

The first thing I noticed when I walked onto the campus of my law school was a beautiful stone chapel and the sign in front of it with its name: Our Lady of Good Counsel. It turned out that the law school shared the grounds with Our Lady of Good Counsel School. The chapel greeted people as they came up …

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Beyond Arbitration and Mediation: Designing the Dispute Resolution Process to Fit the Situation

Posted on November 3, 2016 by Michael Zeytoonian

Posted: October 25, 2016 in the Boston Bar Journal. We live in a specialized world, one in which access to information is so overwhelming that there literally is “an app for that” to satisfy even the most specific and narrow of needs. Yet, until recently, the legal profession’s response to the increasingly tailored needs of our clients has been to …

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