Courts are still jammed up. Want to get resolution without waiting a couple years (or more)? Try pre-litigation ADR.

What infernal serpent / Has lent you his forked tongue?
From what pit of foul deceit / Are all these whoppers sprung?

In this episode, Christopher Ernst, arbitrator, mediator, & neutral at Ohio ADR, shares his tips for how attorneys can effectively use mediation in the course of client representation.

It's sad, so sad. Why can't we talk it over?
Oh, it seems to me that sorry seems to be the hardest word

Traditionally used in civil matters, mediation is now expanding to criminal cases.

Be prepared. Be prepared. Be prepared.

Never send a boy (or girl) to do a man’s (or woman’s) job.

Collaboration in mediation is so crucial to success.

Hybridization moves from the garden to ADR.

"Now you listen here, I'm an advertising man, not a red herring. I've got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders depending upon me, and I don't intend to disappoint them all by getting myself 'slightly' killed." — Roger O. Thornhill

How does the Italian Renaissance affect your mediation?

Put me in Coach, I’m ready to mediate.

Rule number one in any mediation? Don’t tick off the mediator. One major key to getting a deal done is to be likeable. Being obnoxious is easy.

False negotiators are antithetical to the concept of meaningful mediations. But how to protect yourself from them?

Gentle persuasion can sometimes assist negotiations. Sometimes, it’s ineffective. Sometimes, people just need a figurative punch in the nose.

Does Life imitate Art or does Art imitate Life?

Failing to prepare for mediation is the same as preparing to fail … yet attorneys do this all the time.

COVID-19 Continues to Force Proceedings Online.

That is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of alternative dispute resolution, Or to take arms against a sea of lawyers And by opposing end them.

Thoughts on how claims should be valued going into a mediation…