About this product: This classic casebook approaches dispute resolution from the unique perspective of lawyers, including their various roles as counselors, advocates, and dispute resolution specialists, and as human beings involved in these processes. While retaining its familiar style, organization, accessibility and sense of humor, the new edition also updates this classroom-tested casebook with all major cases and practice, empirical, and theoretical developments, and gives special emphasis to problem-solving and understanding and managing conflict.
About this product: A wonderful text book for those working or studying in the field. This book is written for law students and some chapters are drier than others, so beware that it doesn't read as easily as some other ADR texts.
Each topic is analyzed from multiple perspectives, accompanied by quotations from experts with distinct backgrounds (attorneys, professors, mediators, professional negotiators, judges depending on the chapter) that explain various points of view.
Each chapter is broken down into sub-headings, for example the Mediation chapter includes sections on the process, the role of the public, social science assessments, regulation and enforcement, and professional responsibility. Each of these sections is further elaborated into narrower topics. Peppered throughout the text, you will find thought-provoking questions that probe your own opinion on a particular situation.
Slightly dry for the novice interested in mediation as a side-job or hobby, but for those who really want to learn about the legal, ethical and practical issues in all types of ADR with real-life and fictional examples, this book can't be beat. I have found something fascinating and insightful on every single page so far.
About this product: "Resolving Disputes: Theory, Practice, and Law" is an ideal and up-to-date text for the new generation of practice-oriented dispute resolution courses. This lively new book captures a lawyer's perspective on resolving disputes effectively and prepares your students to represent clients effectively in all forms of alternative dispute resolution. This timely and teachable text: presents class-tested material designed for the survey course, with sections on negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and hybrid designs; integrates theory with strategies, ethics, and the law; emphasizes practice applications and useful approaches; focuses on the lawyer's perspective; the negotiation section highlights professional negotiation as an agent for clients, while the mediation and arbitration sections stress the role of the representational lawyer; includes examples drawn from headline cases, literature, and lawyers' experiences, adding to the realism and relevance of the text; excerpts the most important and recent articles and cases; and draws on the authors extensive experience and from their key roles with major dispute resolution provider organizations as well as their many years of teaching, training, and practicing ADR. A complete Teacher's Manual helps instructors prepare for class with: detailed syllabi; comprehensive teaching notes; provocative discussion points; tested exercises and role-plays linked to the text; and DVD/video coordinated with the text and role-plays (available to adopters). If you want to convey more than the basics and prepare your students for successful, enlightened practice, turn to "Resolving Disputes: Theory, Practice, and Law" for the most current and most realistic exploration of ADR.
About this product: If any professor is thinking about getting this book for their ADR or negotiations class, PLEASE THINK TWICE! This is a HORRIBLE casebook with nothing but pure FLUFF and ZERO substance. We have a joke in my ADR class that not even Menkle Meadow read the book it is so unbelievably lacking in substance.
If you want to learn about negotiation just buy a $12 copy of "Getting to Yes". Not only will you have about 80% of what you'll find in the Menkle Meadow book, but you will actually learn something.
However, if you want to get a book to read to your parents to prove to them how horrible law school is, than this is the book for you.
About this product: This comprehensive guide provides an overview of alternative dispute resolutions and settlements. This Nutshell presents alternatives to dispute resolutions that go beyond the one size fits all litigation mentality. On-point discussion facilitates an understanding of the wide variety of options available that can better suit a client's needs, such as negotiation, mediation, and arbitration.
Conflict is inevitable, in both deals and disputes. Yet when clients call in the lawyers to haggle over who gets how much of the pie, traditional hard-bargaining tactics can lead to ruin. Too often, deals blow up, cases don't settle, relationships fall apart, justice is delayed. Beyond Winning charts a way out of our current crisis of confidence in the legal system. It offers a fresh look at negotiation, aimed at helping lawyers turn disputes into deals, and deals into better deals, through practical, tough-minded problem-solving techniques.
In this step-by-step guide to conflict resolution, the authors describe the many obstacles that can derail a legal negotiation, both behind the bargaining table with one's own client and across the table with the other side. They offer clear, candid advice about ways lawyers can search for beneficial trades, enlarge the scope of interests, improve communication, minimize transaction costs, and leave both sides better off than before. But lawyers cannot do the job alone. People who hire lawyers must help change the game from conflict to collaboration. The entrepreneur structuring a joint venture, the plaintiff embroiled in a civil suit, the CEO negotiating an employment contract, the real estate developer concerned with environmental hazards, the parent considering a custody battle--clients who understand the pressures and incentives a lawyer faces can work more effectively within the legal system to promote their own best interests. Attorneys exhausted by the trench warfare of cases that drag on for years will find here a positive, proven approach to revitalizing their profession.
About this product: For more than a decade, Managing Public Disputes has been the first choice, hands-on guide for managers, offering useful instructions for handling a wide range of large and small public controversies from the national to the community level. It includes:
Ten proven principles for managing conflict
A comprehensive framework with step-by-step procedures for creating productive outcomes
Seven illustrative case examples
Detailed advice on effective methods for collecting information, conducting interviews, and analyzing a conflict situation
Suggestions for handling special problems such as reluctant participants, keeping people at the negotiation table, and handling situations where emotions are running high
Eight tasks targeted for designing an overall strategy for managing public disputes
About this product: This documents supplement accompanies Baldwin, Brand, Epstein, and Gordon's International Civil Dispute Resolution, Second Edition.
About this product: No matter your profession (attorney, clinician, family therapist) or skill level (seasoned professional or novice), The Handbook of Family Dispute Resolution is an invaluable resource that outlines the most effective mediation approaches, techniques, and skills. The Handbook of Family Dispute Resolution is a practical and comprehensive guide that includes
A review of professional ethics and standards
Help for attorneys who are not trained in the skills needed for working with families
Information about cultural issues that affect families during mediation
Highlights of key legal and negotiation skills
Guidelines for understanding complex family dynamics and conflicts
A screening tool for evaluating domestic violence
A matrix for starting discussions of parenting plans based on children's needs
An examination of specialized practices for family mediation
Direction for assessing one's professional approach to family mediation
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