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Setting the Table for Settlement: How to make the environment in your office conducive to settling the case
By: Shawn Weber, Esq., FRI Founder, Attorney, Mediator, Collaborative Divorce Practitioner ©2017 By Shawn Weber Having mediated divorce cases my entire career, I have learned that the space in which the negotiations take place can have a huge impact on whether we can...
How a Mediation Career Changed My Life: personally and professionally.
By Shawn Skillin, Esq., Family Resolution Institute Trainer and Co-Founder My Previous Life In my first professional life, I was a nurse. Then I got this crazy idea to go to law school. As a nurse I worked in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit, I was certified as a...
“Fair” is the F-Word!
Our Co-founder and mediation trainer, Shawn Weber, J.D., recently wrote a post on his personal blog about why "FAIR" is a terrible word to use in mediation. Really, a good mediator will move people away from fictional and hard to define concepts like "fair" or...
Numbers vs Feelings: Different Perspectives in Mediation
By: Shawn D. Skillin, Esq., FRI Founder, Attorney, Mediator, Collaborative Divorce Practitioner ©2015 By Shawn D. Skillin In divorce mediation, there is almost always a numbers person and a feelings person. The numbers person was probably what I refer to as the...
Top Five Principles for Successful Family Law Conflict Managers
By Shawn Weber, J.D., CLS-F* In my years as a consensual dispute resolution professional, I have gotten to know a lot of professionals who try to manage conflict in divorce and family law situations. Some are very successful… and others not so much. I have compiled a...
To Caucus or Not to Caucus? 5 Circumstances When It’s Really Helpful
By: Shawn D. Skillin, Esq., FRI Founder, Attorney, Mediator, Collaborative Divorce Practitioner ©2015 By Shawn D. Skillin A caucus is a private meeting with a mediation client that is confidential between the client and the mediator unless otherwise agreed. In my...
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