Arbitration & Mediation

Negotiating Legal Decisions

By Victoria Pynchon

I'm bookmarking this article.  I'll translate its main points from the academese to plain English this week-end along with insights on how to help your opponent make the legal decision you want him to make -- settle the case in the range of reason. 

A Third View of the Black Box:  Cognitive Coherence in Legal Decision Making by Professor Dan Simon of the USC School of Law.

And, somewhat off point but triggered by this image, an excerpt from Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet on the way in which wisdom eventually arrives:

try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

Full post as published by Settle It Now Negotiation Blog on March 14, 2009 (boomark / email).