Clean (heart)break Mediation for gay, lesbian breakups creates new set of issues Full Story >> Laugh it up Mediators utilize humor to ease tension, reach agreements. Full Story >> After years of work, collaborative law may finally get uniform standards It’s been 20 years since Minnesota family lawyer Stuart Webb created collaborative law, and family-law-related [...]
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Mediation for gay, lesbian breakups creates new set of issues
Mediators utilize humor to ease tension, reach agreements
It’s been 20 years since Minnesota family lawyer Stuart Webb created collaborative law, and family-law-related associations have since been formed in all 50 states. That rapid growth led the National Conference of Commissioners for Uniform State Laws to decide in 2007 that it’s time to bring some uniformity to the practice of collaborative law. Thus [...]
During a mediation, Milwaukee attorney William A. Jennaro is often asked by one of the parties what he thinks about their case. The former judge is careful with his response and generally reminds everyone involved that he is there to help reach an agreement, not endorse one side over the other. “I can’t tell them [...]
No. 1: Nonviolent Communication is a funny name. Attorney Larry R. Cote, a Germantown attorney/mediator, concedes the name is slightly off-putting; it connotes images of trying to defuse shouting matches or fist fights. Cote, who is trained in Nonviolent Communication, or NVC, says NVC is intended to keep the mediation process civil. Some prefer to [...]
