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The Hidden Cost of Workplace Conflict: How Resolution Sessions Can Help Solve It

A new approach—offering employees resolution sessions with an outside neutral, or facilitator—gives employees an effective technique for addressing conflict.
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Seven Dirty Words to Avoid at Mediation

Here is my list of Seven Dirty Words at Mediation and why I believe that we should carefully consider whether and when to use these words.
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From the Playing Field to the Mediation Room: How 5 Coaching Skills Work in Mediation

As a mediator, I certainly draw on my experience as a football and lacrosse coach, and I have found there are many parallels between a successful team and a successful mediation. Here are some of the coaching skills that I have found effective in the mediation context.
5 minute read

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LegalEdge: Tips for Freshly Minted Lawyers

This column outlines tips for freshly minted lawyers to help set the tone for future success and to navigate the ever-moving terrain of the practice of law. Although this column is oriented for our most junior lawyers, we can all benefit from a refresher on tips for growing as an attorney.
4 minute read

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Certain States Have Begun Scrapping Court Costs and Fees for People Unable to Pay–Two Experts on Legal Punishments Explain Why

At times, people are sentenced to pay without incarceration, but frequently people across the U.S. are sentenced to both jail time and fiscal penalties. ... But these fines and fees are often levied without any consideration for an individual's ability to pay—and can add up to thousands of dollars. Given the potential consequences of legal debt on people unable to pay, including the loss of the right to vote and further criminal infractions, we conducted a multistate study on the impact of fines and fees.
5 minute read

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What Lawyers Should Know About the Corporate Transparency Act

The CTA's effective date, Jan. 1, is fast approaching. Thus, lawyers and law firms should prepare by considering not only the reporting obligations of their clients, but also whether they have any newly imposed obligations themselves.
5 minute read

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First Amendment Battle Looms in Georgia, Where the State Is Framing Opposition to a Police Training Complex as a Criminal Conspiracy

Racketeering charges typically are reserved for people accused of conspiring toward a criminal goal, such as members of organized crime networks or financiers engaged in insider trading. Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr is attempting to build an argument that seeking to stop construction of the police training facility—through actions that include organizing protests, occupying the construction site and vandalizing police cars and construction equipment—constitutes a "corrupt agreement" or shared criminal goal.
7 minute read

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Hotel Franchises: A Potential Shift in Power Through the Courts, Including Georgia Case?

Hotel franchisees are advocating in favor of a bill currently pending in New Jersey that seeks to codify certain protections for hotel franchisees and, in effect, reconfigure the relationship between hotel owners and franchisors. In their Hospitality Law column, Todd Soloway and Bryan Mohler discuss this effort by hotel franchisees to seek redress in court, and key takeaways for hotel industry stakeholders.
8 minute read

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Mediating Wage-Hour Collective and Class Actions: Special Factors to Keep in Mind

The wage-and-hour collective/class action mediation is a different type of case, and as mediator of wage-and-hour collective class action cases, I'd like to share some of the unique aspects of these types of cases.
9 minute read

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Who Can Defend Voting Rights? An Appeals Court Ruling Sharply Limiting Lawsuits Looks Likely to Head to the Supreme Court

After a federal appeals court in Arkansas recently ruled that only the federal government—not private citizens or civil rights groups—could sue to enforce the 1965 Voting Rights Act, an appeal to the Supreme Court is likely. But if the ruling stands, it could gut individual persons' and civil rights groups' legal right to fight racial discrimination in voting.
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