Resolutions: A Podcast About Dispute Resolution and Prevention

Risky Business; The Best Tool You Probably Aren’t Using

Rekha Rangachari interviews Mediator & Founder of Peacemaker, Brian K. Epps
In this episode, Brian drills down on the benefits, and misunderstandings, surrounding risk analysis as a critical tool for attorneys and mediators. Peacemaker offers a solution to the “math is hard” axiom, mapping litigant responses to simple questions — ultimately displayed in a simple table rather than a confusing decision tree matrix. Brian demonstrates through case examples how to incorporate risk analysis into mediation, to find a pathway between gut instinct-approximations and sound approaches to valuation.
Episode Resources:
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The Role of Risk Analysis in Dispute & Litigation Management
The One Minute Manager Prepares for Mediation: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Negotiation Preparation
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Starting Your Mediation Practice

In this episode, host Caroline Stauffer chats with Genesis Fisher & Jeff Kichaven, who give advice on how to start your own mediation practice.
 
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Presenting the Center for Understanding in Conflict: Part Two

In this second episode of a multi-part series, Alex Green IV has a conversation with Catherine Connor and Katherine Miller, who are both experienced mediation trainers with the Center for Understanding in Conflict, about the mechanics and the philosophy of the Center’s different approach to and style of mediation. 
We hope that our listeners can understand the uniqueness and maybe even consider the potential utility of the Center’s Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) model such that the Center’s mediation strategies and techniques may be useful to adopt and explore in other, more “traditional” mediation settings.

Young Neutrals: Breaking into an International ADR Career

Two young ADR professionals, a mediator and arbitrator, both from Brazil, share their challenges and views of the profession and why/how they chose the ADR path.

From the Michigan Supreme Court to CEO of the American Arbitration Association: A Fireside Chat with Bridget McCormack

American Arbitration Association (AAA)
Commercial Vice President, Aaron Gothelf sits down with Bridget McCormack to discuss her transition from Chief Justice of The Michigan Supreme Court to CEO of AAA.   
Topics include: Why she was interested in taking on the role? How her experience as an academic and on the bench influenced her leadership style? What sets AAA apart from other ADR providers? How can arbitration improve its’ public image as various states attempt to pass laws banning or restricting consumer and employment arbitration? Is artificial intelligence the future of ADR and could it replace arbitrators? Her overall vision for AAA’s future.

DEIB Efforts - A Focus on What ”Belonging” Means

In this episode, host Juliana Rigato-Piekarski is joined by ADR professionals Miss-Ashley Kendrick and Sunnita Blount, Esq. for a thought-provoking conversation about what “belonging” means, its importance for neutrals, its impact on the ADR practice, and how to achieve it. 

Presenting the Center for Understanding in Conflict

In this episode, host Alex Green IV has a conversation with James Dykeman and Catherine Connor, a conflict resolution trainer and a marketer/public relations specialist, both of whom work for the Center for Understanding in Conflict.
 
This conversation not only offers information about the founding and the history of the organization, but also an overview of the unique model that the Center for Understanding in Conflict uses to train mediators.
 
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The ABA Cornerstones of Democracy: Civics, Civility, and Collaboration Commission with ABA President Deborah Enix Ross & Terry Amsler

In this episode, Larry Schooler sits down with American Bar Association President Deborah Enix Ross and Terry Amsler, School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University.
 
They discuss the ABA Cornerstones of Democracy: Civics, Civility and Collaboration Commission. This initiative encourages the legal profession to lead the way in promoting civics, civility, and collaboration to restore confidence in our democratic institute and the judicial system, and to protect the rule of law. 

Movement, Management and Modeling at Immediation: Fireside Chat with Andrew Hutchinson

In this episode, Rekha Rangachari sits down with Andrew Hutchinson, Chief Revenue Officer at Immediation. They discuss Immediation’s history and end-to-end process management, the future of mediation — to include start-ups and an uptick of technology disputes, and driving better outcomes in law through technology.

Truth and Action: Addressing systemic Racism in the Criminal Justice System

In partnership with the Mitchell Hamline School of Law Project Advisory Committee, and along with interested individuals and community organizations, the School established the Truth and Action project—a project created under the umbrella of transitional justice, which relies on the foundation that reform and reconciliation are not possible without first understanding the truth.