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Article Excerpt
Oliver Ross Issues Press www.idyllarbor.com 297 pp., $35
In 1973, the late country singer Charlie Rich scored a hit with a romantic ballad, singing, "No one knows what goes on behind closed doors." For trial lawyers, what goes on behind the closed doors of a mediation conference is also a mystery.
Through the years, many attorneys have asked me what occurs when mediators separate the participants and conduct their private sessions with the parties and their counsel.
This book answers the questions of trial lawyers and other curious souls and provides fascinating insights into the dynamics of the mediation process. Oliver Ross, a veteran trial lawyer and mediator with a doctorate in human behavior psychology, generously takes readers behind the closed doors of the mediation process and into the mindset and thought process of a professional mediator. In so doing, Ross offers useful insights into how mediators (and attorneys) can help highly conflicted parties resolve disputes sensibly and find durable results.
In his introduction, Ross advocates "situational mediation," which combines elements of evaluative, collaborative, transformative, and humanistic styles of mediation. He offers situational mediation as a sensible, real-life approach for resolving disputes and teaching effective methods...
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