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Safety Planning in Mediation: Part 3
The steps that family/collaborative lawyers, mediators and arbitrators can take, based on informed screening to enhance client safety are explained in part 3 of this blog series. Read more about safety...
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Professionalism in an Adversarial Legal World
As a mediator, mediation and negotiation trainer, and provider of court-connected dispute resolution services, issues of professionalism and professional ethics arise often in my work. Although...
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Explore Your Options in Dispute Resolution
With so many options, how does one choose the best dispute resolution process? This blog series will attempt to identify and define as many of the options as possible. This week’s focus will be on the...
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Exploring Your Options in Dispute Resolution: Mediation
Mediation is a voluntary process of negotiation that is led by a neutral expert in conflict resolution skills. Family mediators are often family lawyers or mental health professionals themselves....
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Transforming Family Law: Legal Education and Transgender Parents
FDRIO’s recent Unconference on May 4th introduced legal professionals to the perspective of LGBTQ+ parents in family law. Guest speakers touched on struggles faced by LGBTQ+ families in family law,...
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Some Suggested Steps for Safety Planning in Potentially High Risk Cases
The following excerpt from “Safety Planning in Family Law Cases: An Emerging Duty of Care for Lawyers?” is part 1 of a 3 part series which offers some helpful suggestions for safety planning and...
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Safety Planning in Family Law : Part 2
The ways in which family negotiations are done is in the midst of a major shift. Family law professionals must be prepared to use a variety of tools to ensure a safe and equitable process. Part 2 of...
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Safety Planning in Mediation: Part 3
The steps that family/collaborative lawyers, mediators and arbitrators can take, based on informed screening to enhance client safety are explained in part 3 of this blog series. Read more about safety...
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Professionalism in an Adversarial Legal World
As a mediator, mediation and negotiation trainer, and provider of court-connected dispute resolution services, issues of professionalism and professional ethics arise often in my work. Although...
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Explore Your Options in Dispute Resolution
With so many options, how does one choose the best dispute resolution process? This blog series will attempt to identify and define as many of the options as possible. This week’s focus will be on the...
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Exploring Your Options in Dispute Resolution: Family Arbitration
Family arbitration is a very different process from mediation, and yet they are often confused. Arbitration is a process whereby the parties present their version of the story before a...
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Community mediation training for police officers in Dominica
Riverdale Mediation will be training twenty-eight police officers to become community mediators in Rousseau, Dominica. This 40 hours training workshop, which runs from September 26th- 30th, is in...
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Mediating through a Tropical Storm
Photo collage of participants at our training course in Roseau, Dominica Jared, Regina, Caroline and I are sitting in the dining room of the Fort Young Hotel in the capital of Dominica, Roseau. The...
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ADR Training in a Cultural Melting-Pot
Our team of mediators is in Guyana delivering another round of adr training to community leaders with the IMPACT Justice project. Learn more about our complex cultural experience in Georgetown! I am in...
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Collaboration Across the Caribbean: Training with the IMPACT Justice Project
Joel Skapiner, Nicole Stewart-Kamanga, Regina Thompson and Elizabeth spent a week in Guyana conducting another session of ADR training in collaboration with IMPACT Justice project. Read Joel’s account...
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Access To Justice : Community Realities
The theme for FDRWeek this year was “FDRevolution”, highlighting the emerging revolutionary changes and innovative techniques, products, services and complexities of FDR practice. On Thursday, Nov....
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Learning as we Train New Mediators in the Caribbean
The last session of training that we provided in the Caribbean for IMPACT Justice was in Belize in November. We spent the week with 38 police officers of varying rank, who came each day from across the...
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Recognizing moments of Successful Co-parenting
Providing hope and a realistic vision is as important as developing a roadmap for parents that they can follow towards achieving their final destination. originally published August 15 2015 Like any...
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Children’s Interviews in the Parenting Coordination Process
Though parents are ultimately the decision makers, and the children do not have the same decision-making authority, parents decisions can be informed by the children’s wishes. originally posted July...
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Coach your Client to be a Better Negotiator: Tips for Negotiating Effectively
ADR professionals are, by definition, skilled negotiators. What attitudes, skills, and strategies do we already have to help coach our clients to achieve the best possible outcomes? 10 Coaching Tips...
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