Most people think that when they get into a legal dispute, they have to file a lawsuit. They retain a lawyer, often a litigator, and start an expensive, time-consuming process called litigation. “I’ll sue.” “I’ll take you to court.” It’s what we are taught and reared on, what we see in movies and on TV […]
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This blog post is in honor of “March Madness”, i.e. the NCAA’s annual basketball championship, which is basketball at its best. For basketball junkies like me, there was a great article in the Fall, 2013 issue of Good magazine about the Triangle Offense. This system was used by Phil Jackson and Tex Winter to redirect […]
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Over 2013, we heard a few reasons from employers and companies for why they would forego using Collaborative Law – a much more efficient dispute resolution process than litigation – and opt for litigation or arbitration instead. For any employer or company who has either not heard of the option of using Collaborative Law (CL) […]
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In every dispute a client calls me in to work to resolve, my first inquiry with the other side is to discuss the possibility of early resolution. If we can explore this option even before any litigation has been initiated, it’s even better. The other side often responds that they too want to negotiate to […]
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How often have we said or written something and quickly or soon realized that the message the recipient got was not what we wanted to convey? In the e-communications world, it happens all the time. This disconnect is assisted by the fact that how we communicate today lacks the non-verbal elements, especially what is written […]
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What if we began to see disputes as a small part of something bigger? If we viewed them as a point along a spectrum with a greater continuum? If we placed the dispute within the context of one or more larger relationships? When we do this, we free ourselves to treat the dispute differently. This […]
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One reason we changed the name of our firm recently to Dispute Resolution Counsel was to highlight the role that lawyers play in representing their clients in an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) processes. The role, approach and technique of a lawyer in these situations are different from that of a litigator. The focus and the […]
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What is a lawyer’s role in serving the needs of his or her clients? What do our clients want from us as their legal counsel? Maybe the better question is this: What do our clients need us to be for them? I’ve given this a lot of thought in nearly 25 years of working with […]
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Moving forward the new Mediation Matters blog articles will be posted to my own website. You will be able to find all of the archived blogs and new blog articles at the following URL:
http://www.stevemehta.com/blog
Thank you!
In our last blog, we suggested that people approach resolving legal disputes the way they approach making medical decisions. The starting point is to have a “primary care lawyer”, a true legal counselor, just as we have a primary care physician. If clients have a legal counselor, there’s a better chance they will get good […]
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