A lot of people believe that COVID has caused divorce cases to drag and the legal system to be ground to a halt – or at least, to lag behind.
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Thoughts On Moving Cases Forward In Light of the Impact of Coronavirus
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Prior to the current coronavirus pandemic and resulting shelter in place orders, in many counties, there was already serious backlogs. What that means is that trial dates were hard to…
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The Inability or Refusal to Settle By the Lawyer, Not the Litigant
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In one of the earliest posts I did on this blog going back ten years or more, I posited that you can only really settle when the time is right…
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Know Your Mediator
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There is an old adage in litigation “know your judge.” Essentially what that means is that you should find out as much as you can about the judge you are…
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Don’t Let Your Arbitration Agreement Bite You
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You hear people talk all the time these days that mediation and arbitration, or quite frankly, any alternate dispute resolution (ADR) methods are the best things since sliced bread. They…
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Beware Legal Whack A Mole
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Sometimes, instead of practicing family law, it feels like we are playing a game of legal Whack A Mole. You know what Whack A Mole is, right? For those who…
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“Conscious Uncoupling”: An Ode to a Mediated Divorce
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As a lover of all things Coldplay, I was sad to hear that lead singer Chris Martin and his wife of more than 10 years, Gwyneth Paltrow, were divorcing. Gwyneth…
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The Expert Is Not The Quarterback: Don’t Let Them Stand in the Way of Settlement
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In many cases, experts are a necessary, if not invaluable asset to have on your team. Often, they are not only needed to provide the necessary financial calculations (e.g. business…
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Judges Are Supposed To Decide Matters Ripe for Decision – Not Send It To Mediation – Shocking!?!
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We have all had this happen. Letters get written back and forth to try to settle a matter and/or you just file a motion because the issue is clear based…
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The Benefits of Mediation – Even If You Don’t Settle
By Eric S. Solotoff on
Earlier today, Robert Epstein posted an interesting piece entitled The Psychology of Mediation. Whether people like it or not, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) is here to stay as the…
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