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Mediation Negotiation: Sometimes When You Give More You Get More Everyone negotiates differently, but certain patterns emerge over time. Often, a plaintiff will have a much too high settlement demand which will lead to a much too low response to that demand. There are two outcomes when this pattern emerges. Either... Read More

Mediation-The Power of a CCP Section 998 Offer to Compromise A strategic Section 998 Offer to Compromise can make all the difference in getting a matter resolved. This was highlighted in one of my recent mediations. The plaintiff was clinging to a speculative damages theory; when faced with a settlement offer ... Read More

Nothing Completely Replaces In-Person Mediation I have previously written about the effectiveness of Zoom mediation. There is no doubt that Zoom mediation works and, as a result, I have resolved many matters utilizing Zoom. But does anything completely replace in-person mediation? A recent in-... Read More

There Is Creativity Even in A Straightforward Settlement Recently, a mediator colleague lamented that the settlements reached at his mediation were more and more following a predictable range and pattern. I thought about this in connection with a lender-guarantor dispute that I mediated. Read More

A Year of Zoom Mediation I am commemorating one-year of an entirely virtual mediation practice. In March 2018, when I launched Petlak Mediation, I could not have foreseen a worldwide pandemic which would prevent me from conducting in-person mediations for an entire year. Read More

Los Angeles Mediation - 2018 Year in Review Some of the important lessons I learned in 2018. Read More

Los Angeles Real Estate/Financial Services Mediation: There is Not Just One Path to Getting to Yes There may not to be one path that will always work to settle a case, but the good news is that there is always a path. Read More

Los Angeles Real Estate/Financial Services Mediation: Does the Settlement Agreement have to be Executed at the Mediation? While in most cases there is negligible risk in the parties electing to enter into the formal settlement agreement after reaching the deal terms at mediation, there are some cases that will only settle if the binding settlement agreement is signed at... Read More

Los Angeles Real Estate/Financial Services Mediation: Sometimes a Good Mediation is all About Baseball I recently settled a case by talking about baseball. Yes, baseball. Baseball had nothing to do with the underlying lawsuit. But, it became a necessary component to settling the matter. Read More

Los Angeles Real Estate/Financial Services Mediation: Joint Session or No Joint Session that is the Question Should a joint session take place in every mediation? Probably not in every mediation. Deciding on whether to convene a joint session should depend on the parties, the issues in dispute and, most importantly, what works best at that moment in time ... Read More

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