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Navigating Kaiser Permanente’s arbitration process
June 13, 2025 - Shutterstock When individuals suffer injury at the hands of medical professionals, they often seek resti- tution in court or through out-of- c...

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Family law crisis: Why divorce cases now take years and cost more
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Reimagining ADR: Part II: Slaying the litigation dragon: institutional reforms to make mediation the first strike
May 20, 2025 - Shutterstock I n Part I of this series, I ex- plored pre-litigation pathways to expand the use of ADR to achieve its overall promise - ...

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Reimagining ADR: Part I: Mediation reigns, but the litigation beast lives on
May 19, 2025 - This art was created with the assistance of Shutterstock AI tools T en years ago, I published an article about the full panoply of ADR processe...

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Choosing a mediator: Why different skill sets matter
May 08, 2025 - This art was created with the assistance of Shutterstock AI tools Craig A. Schloss is a neutral with Signature Resolution who has more than four ...

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Mediating divorce after a natural disaster
April 16, 2025 - A house engulfed in flames during the Eaton Fire in Altadena. | Shutterstock W hen a couple seeks to settle their divorce through mediation, bo...

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SB 82: An end to infinite arbitration clauses
April 09, 2025 - This art was created with the assistance of Shutterstock AI tools Imagine signing a television subscriber service agreement with Disney that inclu...

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Skip PAGA’s early evaluation conference, proceed to mediation
March 28, 2025 - This art was created with the assistance of Shutterstock AI tools In amending the Private Attor- neys General Act (PAGA) in 2024 (AB 2288 a...

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Mediating with a financially impaired defendant
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The role of the NTSB in aircraft accident litigation
February 24, 2025 - The New York Times T he recent collision of American Eagle Flight 5342 with an Army Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River tragicall...

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Arbitration has come a long way
February 12, 2025 - Shutterstock Tricia Bigelow is a neutral with Signature Resolution. She can be reached at tbigelow@signature- resolution.com. A rbitration has re...

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Trade secret theft could snare corporate wrongdoers
February 05, 2025 - Shutterstock I s there ever a good outcome to trade secret theft? Federal prosecutors seem to think that bad acts might produce good results. ...