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This is a link to a series on what will be a new theme here at Engaging Conflicts — Financial Distress. I’m doing this particular set over at my Bankruptcy Law Blog, reviewing Ramit Sethi’s tips for saving money. Sethi discusses the various ways we can keep money in our pockets at his blog IWillTeachYouToBeRich.com. Financial distress is the theme of these times and will engender much conflict in ways we must start examining. At least, I must. This is, in part, an experiment as I do not necessarily have clear links to make between Engaging Conflicts and financial distress issues, but we will see where this leads. Please see more about this theme on the new page “Financial Distress”.

Tip #26: Gardener? Cleaning lady? DIY instead

This is a link to a series on what will be a new theme here at Engaging Conflicts — Financial Distress. I’m doing this particular set over at my Bankruptcy Law Blog, reviewing Ramit Sethi’s tips for saving money. Sethi discusses the various ways we can keep money in our pockets at his blog IWillTeachYouToBeRich.com. Financial distress is the theme of these times and will engender much conflict in ways we must start examining. At least, I must. This is, in part, an experiment as I do not necessarily have clear links to make between Engaging Conflicts and financial distress issues, but we will see where this leads. Please see more about this theme on the new page “Financial Distress”.

Tip #25: Earn more money using your God-given skills

This is a link to a series on what will be a new theme here at Engaging Conflicts — Financial Distress. I’m doing this particular set over at my Bankruptcy Law Blog, reviewing Ramit Sethi’s tips for saving money. Sethi discusses the various ways we can keep money in our pockets at his blog IWillTeachYouToBeRich.com. Financial distress is the theme of these times and will engender much conflict in ways we must start examining. At least, I must. This is, in part, an experiment as I do not necessarily have clear links to make between Engaging Conflicts and financial distress issues, but we will see where this leads. Please see more about this theme on the new page “Financial Distress”.

Tip #24: Cut your commute expenses by 40%

Happy Holidays and best wishes for the new year!

“Now that the current Conflict Resolution movement as a cultural virus has run its course and become institutionalized, what now?” – Doug Yarn

Engaging Conflicts Today interviews Doug Yarn who is Executive Director of the Consortium on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution and Professor of Law at Georgia State University. Formerly inhouse for the AAA, he is an experienced practitioner and has trained mediators and public entities. His publications include The Dictionary of Conflict Resolution (Jossey-Bass 1999), two state practice treatises, and numerous book chapters and articles. He holds degrees from Duke University, University of Georgia, and Cambridge University, England. In his spare time, he plays Uilleann pipes in a traditional Irish ceili band.

If you would like a copy of his interview, and are not signed up for the newsletter (which you can do in the sidebar on the right!), email me this week at engagingconflicts@gmail.com with Doug Yarn in the subject line and I’ll email it to you.

Vickie Pynchon is the most prolific ADR blogger I know, and she writes LOTS more than her main ADR blog, Settle It Now Negotiation Blog. This week, she is hosting Blawg Review #179 at her Intellectual Property ADR Blog.

Here’s her opener:

If intellectual property had a theme song it would have to be “Like a Virgin.”

Why?

Because IP is all about “the very first time,” the “aha” moment, the creative spark that gives rise to previously undreamed imaginings.The restrictions of “how we’ve always done things” fall away and the numbing repetition of days become vibrant. The rest, of course, is work. Trial and error. Success. Failure. Rearranging the disaligned. Completion.

Then the suits arrive. That’s us, the lawyers.

In honor of the moment of creation at the root of every intellectual property dispute, this week’s Blawg Review No. 171 gives you the great virgins of history.

To kick off the “virgin” IP ADR Blawg Review, we’re linking you to Kate Monro’s brilliant and (in)famous blog The Virginity Project and giving you a tantilizing excerpt:

Here’s the link for more ….

It’s enormously challenging to write a Blawg Review. Bravo, Vickie!

Back in April I posted Part One of a series on use of the MBTI in professional practices (and personal life). I expanded greatly on it in an article just published in the ABA’s Law Trends & News. This newsletter is introduced by its editor thusly:

Below is the third issue of Law Trends for the 2007–08 bar year. As always, this is a very exciting issue, and I am very happy to present it to you. As with prior issues, this e-newsletter includes articles, checklists, and other valuable practice information and practical tips, all from each of our substantive practice areas in the General Practice, Solo & Small Firm Division. This issue also highlights some emerging areas, some interesting checklists, and much more.

While this is written explicitly for lawyers, whether mediators or not, the same principles apply to mediators who are not attorneys, in terms of the value of applying its principles. I believe strongly that mediators who are not attorneys will have statistically relevant differences in their type characteristics from attorneys, so if you are not an attorney, please keep that in mind in reading the statistics about type in lawyers. Read more »

I posted here announcing the premier edition of my column at the work-life online magazine The Complete Lawyer, distributed to some 300,000 attorneys nation-wide. The column is co-written with Vickie Pynchon, Diane Levin, and Stephanie West Allen.

The theme of this issue of The Complete Lawyer (Vol. 4, No. 4) is “What’s Your Exit Strategy?”Here’s the newest installment of “The Human Factor,” what we have learned from mediation and negotiation that can have very broad application in your life and work.

Here’s the link to the previous column on how we came to be mediators.

Some of you have asked, and I thank you for that. You may have noticed that I haven’t posted for a while. I’m okay — I’ve had to prioritize getting my law practice back up and running. I had let it drop to almost nothing for several years while I prioritized Engaging Conflicts. I’ve had a real learning curve as I changed my market niche from family law (which I still do it by referral), to bankruptcy and bankruptcy avoidance. It’s been challenging and rewarding — there’s a lot to learn, and a great need for good attorneys here, and I am enjoying it. (Although it’s not always fun being on steep learning curves! It’s been quite a ride!)

Also, I was doing articles for both the ABA Law Trends online newsletter (here’s my recent article) and the online magazine The Complete Lawyer, where I coauthor the The Human Factor column with Vickie Pynchon, Diane Levin and Stephanie West Allen (see the post tomorrow about the newest column). I also now write an occasional column on use of online, social media over at TCL, starting with the Sept./Oct. issue. Overall, I am writing more for attorneys, and not only for mediators.

Wheh!

I am happy that I have gotten the law practice up and running, and I am enjoying more interaction with lawyers again. I am also very happy I am going to be able to add Engaging Conflicts back into my regular life!

Yes, Engaging Conflicts is now featured in Guy Kawasaki’s “All Top” site featuring live feeds from “the best of the best” websites, in the law category. Guy describes the site generally as:

a news aggregation site that provides “all the top” stories for forty of the most popular topics on the Web. The headlines and first paragraph of the five most recent stories from forty to eighty sources for each topic are displayed. Alltop stories are refreshed approximately every ten minutes.

Engaging Conflicts joins these great ADR sites by colleagues and friends of mine: Diane Levin’s Mediation Channel and World Directory of ADR Blogs; Victoria Pynchon’s Settle it Now Negotiation Blog; Geoff Sharp’s mediator blah blah; Stephanie West Allen’s Idealawg;Tammy Lenski’s conflict zen; and Chris Annunziata’s CKA Mediation & Arbitration Blog.

Visit us all at http://law.alltop.com.