Arbitration & Mediation

Duke v. Wal-Mart at Forbes Woman: Implicit Gender Bias and Social Science Evidence

Posted on March 28, 2011
For Supreme Court watchers, here's my article on Duke v. Wal-Mart over at the She Negotiates ForbesWoman blog, Wal-Mart Discrimination Case Grapples with Implicit Biases against Women. As the New York Times‘ Adam Liptak reported today, the Supreme Court will decide on Tuesday whether 1...

Do You REALLY Want Me to Be Evaluative?

Posted on March 26, 2011
This just in from one of my colleagues at ADR Services, Inc., Michael P. Carbone. Good stuff and an excellent mediator for commercial real estate and construction dispute litigation. A mistake that lawyers sometimes make is failing to ask for what they want...

The Week at ForbesWoman

Posted on March 21, 2011
Negotiating for Something You Think You Can't Get? Show Up in Drag posted by LISA GATES   My friend Jane, an arborist and landscape designer, recently voiced a still-too-common refrain about getting a fair share of the horticultural pie: 'I wish I could show up in drag...

Think: Book of Business: Attend: NAWMBA'S Emerging Women Executives Summit this May

Posted on March 16, 2011
This is an event not to be missed. The National Association of Women MBA's 2011 Summit for Emerging Executives - Helping Businesswomen Navigate the Climb. Women lawyers - this is a great networking opportunity. Meet your future in Orlando.

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When You're Ready to Seriously Negotiate that 10-Year Case, Read 50 Blog Posts that Will Make You a Better Negotiator

Posted on March 16, 2011
Over at B-School today, you'll find a collection of blog posts that will give you an entire semester's worth of negotiation knowledge, training and (if you practice) experience. Don't miss it. Excerpt below and link here. Learning to be a great negotiator is a skill that will serve you in a variety of situations...

Earthquakes, Demonization, Disparities in Speaker Fees, Women Billionaires, Spider-Man's Director Exits Stage Left and Negotiate the Car of Your Dreams

Posted on March 13, 2011
The week at our ForbesWoman She Negotiates blog. From The Japanese Quake, Pearl Harbor, Karmic Payback and Cognitive Biases. Pearl Harbor is unfortunately a trending Twitter topic because millions of little microphones have been given to people unable to think things through...

Carrie Menkel-Meadow Speaking at Orange County Mediation Conference on March 18

Posted on March 09, 2011
  U.C. Irvine Law School Professor Carrie J. Menkel-Meadow has been teaching and writing about dispute resolution, socio-legal and globalization studies, restorative justice, and, feminist jurisprudence throughout her distinguished career...

Victoria Pynchon Named Southern California Best Lawyer 2011

Posted on March 03, 2011

Bias in the Court Room? Fight it with WLALA on March 17

Posted on March 02, 2011
Worried about bias against women, minorities or majorities in the courtroom? Come join us for a great WLALA Presentation at the Los Angeles Athletic Club on March 17, 2011. Click on the notice below to obtain more details and to register.    

Are We Our Sisters' Keepers? Why are Women Lawyers Not Speaking Up?

Posted on February 26, 2011
Last week at ForbesWoman -- full post here. Excerpt below. [Last week] I learned that Women Lawyers, Law Students Aren't Speaking Up in several places including The Lawyerist in its post Women Lawyers: Silence Isn't Always Golden by Staci Zaretsky...

Be a Negotiation Hero! Resolve Your Differences Today with or Without a Third Party Neutral

Posted on February 23, 2011
I'm dashing this post off between mediations. Here are statements I will not have to hear you make if you are a lean, mean negotiation machine. "If she'd asked for a reduction in her commercial lease rate in light of the downturn in the economy, we would have negotiated a decrease in her yearly rent...

Decade's Most Popular HBS Working Knowledge Articles

Posted on February 23, 2011
More detailed description of these essential papers here! Creating a Positive Professional Image Music Downloads: Pirates-or Customers? A Balanced Scorecard Approach to Measure Customer Profitability Marketing Your Way Through a Recession Understanding Users of Social Networks Social Network Marketing: What Works? Enron's Lessons for Managers Power Posing: Fake It Until You Make It 10 Reasons to Design a Better Corporate Culture Updating a Classic: Writing a Great Business Plan Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Over-Prescribing Goal Setting How Can Decision Making Be Improved? Do Friends Influence Purchases in a Social Network? Communication (and Coordination?) in a Modern, Complex Organization From Strategy to Business Models and to Tactics The Devil Wears Prada? Effects of Exposure to Luxury Goods on Cognition and Decision Making Performance Persistence in Entrepreneurship The End of Chimerica Authority versus Persuasion Speaking Up Constructively: Managerial Practices that Elicit Solutions from Front-Line Employees

An Open Letter to ACCA SoCal on Bringing George W. Bush to its Annual Gala

Posted on February 19, 2011
Association of Corporate Counsel of Southern California February 19, 2011 Dear ACCA Board, I am writing to express my deepest concern that you have invited George W. Bush to speak at this year's gala. I am a life-long member of the ACLU and support the right of all people to speak their minds...

Must Read for All Negotiators, Particularly Litigators

Posted on February 16, 2011
Naivete and Cynicism in Negotiations and Other Competitive Contexts by Chia-Jung Tsay, Lisa L. Shu and the great Max H. Bazerman. Executive Summary from Harvard Working Knowledge below: In business and in life, it's important to strike a smart balance between naïveté and cynicism...

She Negotiates Viral Publicity in Long Beach

Posted on February 16, 2011
Before taking a look at this video, please check out the services of Edwin Duterte of The Viral Publicity who conducts the interview below and who appeared on CNNLive's 30-minute pitch segment (which you can also see below). Edwin turned around two highly professional videos in less than a week after he conducted them...

The ABCs of Conflict with Viral Publicity

Posted on February 15, 2011
Thanks to Lynette Jones of New Day Talk Radio and EdwinDuterte of The Viral Publicity for the free interview from the recent Long Beach event. What fun! And great editing of the piece Edwin! You Rock! See Edwin's interview on CNNLive here.

She Negotiates on NPR with Jennifer Ludden

Posted on February 14, 2011
  If you can't hear the podcast here, go to npr here.

A is for Asshole Now Available for Your Kindle

Posted on February 12, 2011
A very good day indeed when you can instantly download The Grownups' ABCs of Conflict Resolution to your iPad (with a kindle app); your Kindle, or simply to your computer. And for only $7.99!! I also learned today that you can loan your Kindle books to friends for a 14-day period (during which time they're  unavailable to you)...

She Negotiates Custom Training : make it better NOW!

Posted on February 10, 2011
Sure we give our signature on-line course every few months (the next one expanded to six weeks and beginning on April 11). But what if you have a team or a group of friends or an association who would like us to tailor our negotiation class to your particular needs - your business, your profession, your occupation...

la cinquième semaine de salauds

Posted on February 06, 2011
For the faint of heart, the week in bastards/jerks/assholes part five carries its title in French, if google translate can be trusted. Me, I never got much further than je suis très malade on a final day in Paris in 1993 after my amis left the country with me holding the hotel bill...

How to Ask Someone to Stop Using Your Trade Name

Posted on February 03, 2011
The intellectual property police have been out in force since the new year, protecting their rights to words like "win" and "without," as in "negotiating to win" and "mediators without borders." I am told I can negotiate to lose or negotiate with, by or for women, but I cannot "negotiate to win," even if I add the word She in front of the transitive verb Negotiates before going on to suggest that by negotiating, "she" can win...

The week in assholes, la quatrième partie, with the usual random digressions

Posted on January 30, 2011
Even though Stanford Professor Bob Sutton's The No Asshole Rule has been in the marketplace for nearly four years now, people continue to discover it for the first time as does the Harwich Oracle this week in its column, At Your Library: Insights into Bullies...

The Week at ForbesWoman

Posted on January 29, 2011
We've had a busy week over at ForbesWoman in articles and blog posts covering: The Davos World Economic Forum The paucity of women at the Davos Economic Forum despite how rich the ones who attended are as described in this post by Forbes staff writer Louisa Kroll, The Richest Women at Davos...

In Honor of the Kucinich Suit : Stan Freberg's Today the Pits, Tomorrow the Wrinkles

Posted on January 26, 2011
  My ForbesWoman blog post on Rep. Kucinich's instantaneously infamous lawsuit Kucinich vs. The Olive Pit in a World of Injustice here.

The week in assholes, troisième partie

Posted on January 23, 2011
(parts one and two here and here) At New York Magazine, Amy Poehler achieved hero status forever when she called Jay Leno a "fucking asshole" in a mad wicked Beantown accent   Why you're an asshole and why that's just fine over at Lifehacker Remember you inherently suck just as much as everyone else, so forgive people for their shortcomings...

Yes, You Should Ask for a Raise or Increase Your Rates This Year

Posted on January 23, 2011
See the series of articles on the topic over at ForbesWoman ~ Why Every Woman Should Ask for a Raise this Year; and, Why We Women Fail to Ask for Raises and What Happens When We Do, most of which is also applicable to men.  Excerpt from the first article below: You deserve a raise this year because you are working harder, longer and faster than you were before the recession...

Must Read for Mediators: the "Should I Work for Free" Flow Chart

Posted on January 20, 2011
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Bad at Science, Math? Success More Tied to Social Skills

Posted on January 18, 2011
Take a look at David Brook's article today on elite boot camp parenting. I wish I'd said what he says best about the importance of social skills and emotional intelligence to success (not to mention happiness). Naturally, these are the skills one needs to negotiate effectively as well...

The Week in Assholes, Part Deux

Posted on January 16, 2011
In honor of the second week of my East Coast Book Tour, I give you the second edition of The Week in Assholes (week one here). Over at the New York Press, the irresistible Flavor of the Week: The Year of the Asshole, final words below without giving away the ending of this online dating confessional...

Negotiating Leadership with Gloria Feldt's No Excuses

Posted on January 16, 2011
Whether we're working on the transformation of women's lives in the workplace, the home, or on the national stage, an unbelievably powerful network of women is growing, most of it under the radar of today's power structure. There are numerous ways into this network – through finance, law, leadership, science, entrepreneurism, politics and dozens of others...

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