by Lawrence Maxwell, Jr. & Sherrie Abney. Texas adopted its collaborative law statute in 2001. Sixteen other jurisdictions have adopted a collaborative law statute as well. Despite this gain in… Read More »Collaborative Law: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
by Eric Galton. What can lawyers do to improve their mediation outcomes? Successful outcomes, Eric Galton says, start when the lawyers are setting up the mediation itself. Galton walks through a… Read More »Mediation Advocacy: Nuts and Bolts
by Gene Roberts & John DeGroote. Assuming mediation skills are equally strong, what makes one mediation practice more successful than another? Gene Roberts and John DeGroote informally surveyed more than… Read More »Mediation Logistics: Faciliities, Food, and Other Forgotten Details
by Michael Ellison At its most simple, conflict and persuasion are largely handled by two different, and unequal, partners in the human brain. Persuasion is most often the result of… Read More »The Neurobiology of Conflict and Persuasion
Settlement in the Movies By Kay Elkins-Elliott Many movies feature successful resolution of conflict. What can we learn from these big-screen examples? Because the mediator is the team leader in… Read More »Lessons From Hollywood:
The ADR Section of the State Bar of Texas is pleased to invite you to these courses. Click on the links for more information. Handling Your First (or Next) Arbitration:… Read More »State Bar ADR Courses
The Texas Mediator Credentialing Association will hold its annual Symposium in Fort Worth this year—at the Texas A&M School of Law. The date is Saturday, October 28th, and you can register here. The event offers… Read More »TMCA Symposium–You Are Invited
In Builders First Source-South Texas, LP v. Ortiz, the Fourteenth Court of Appeals held, in an interlocutory appeal, that the trial court had jurisdiction to set aside an arbitrator’s sanctions… Read More »Texas: Trial Court Properly Set Aside Arbitrator’s Sanctions Orders Based on Evident Partiality