What's Happening [07.09.13]

The "What's Happening?" Blog is a weekly round up of the all the ADR news, jobs, events and more. Check it out each week and view past news [HERE].

The Invisible Woman: Our ADR Problem

It’s self-evident that women have a commercial dispute ADR problem.

Victoria Pynchon- If women mediators are successful, we are either the Sally Rides of mediation practice (doing it weightless, backwards, and in heels) or we are segregated in “pink collar” specialties—family, elder and employment law—all of which focus on people rather than on commerce or finance.

When I ask AmLaw200 attorneys whether they’ve ever hired a woman mediator, they pause for a very long time, eyes canted upward as if searching that part of the brain storing lost socks, keys, and sunglasses. Sometimes they are silent for so long that I have to answer the question for them.

“The answer is no,” I say. “You’ve never hired a woman mediator and that’s OK because I never did either.”

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Are Women Lousy Salary Negotiators?

Jeff Thompson- First, before anyone goes on the attack against me, this is not my title or my article. I came across it at USnews.com.

"There has been a sizeable amount of research on this topic, and it does appear that women are more hesitant to negotiate than men, and that when they do negotiate they are less likely to make the first offer, and when they do make the first offer and counter offers, they're less extreme offers than the ones made by men," says Robin Pinkley...

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High Conflict Parenting, Technology, and Conflict Resolution (Conference Workshop sneak peek!)

Tune in Wednesday, July 10th at 4:30 pm Eastern time for our upcoming show featuring an ACR Annual Conference Workshop Preview - Sherrill Hayes' session "High conflict parenting, technology, and conflict resolution: Does technology make parenting coordination possible?"

Read More [HERE] | Visit the Podcast Series [HERE] For Previous Episodes