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Navigating the workplace with compassion when a colleague is grieving
February 23, 2024 - Shutterstock Ileft the CAALA Installation and Awards Dinner and was standing in line with two friends waiting for my car to be brought out by the...
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Successful mediations call for an artist’s touch
February 20, 2024 - Mediation is essentially an art, not a science. Along the lines of Jus-tice Potter Stewart’s de- finition of pornography, you will know a good me...
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Liquidated damages could nullify a settlement agreement
February 09, 2024 - A settlement agreement is typically the capstone of a successful mediation. Parties to a legal dispute have negotiated a mutually agreeable resolu...
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Unraveling the Gordian Knot of damages
February 09, 2024 - Shutterstock Greg Derin is a mediator and arbitrator at Signature Resolution. He can be reached at gderin@ signatureresolution.com. I n the Fourt...
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Worker classification: New rules shouldn’t change settlement calculus
February 02, 2024 - Shutterstock O n Jan. 9, the U.S. Depart-ment of Labor announced a new rule, effective March 11, that could impact how California businesses class...
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Can adult survivor claims disregard arbitration agreements under the EFAA?
February 01, 2024 - President Joe Biden signs H.R. 4445, the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act, into law in the East Room of the Whi...
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Eppur si muove
January 26, 2024 - Shutterstock Greg Derin is a mediator and arbi- trator at Signature Resolution. He can be reached at gderin@signa- tureresolution.com. A lthough t...
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SB 365: Plaintiffs might get their day in court
January 04, 2024 - By Benny C. Osorio W hen Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 365 into law on Oct. 10, he sent a strong message that California would not mak...
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Sex Harassment Arbitration Exemption: Devil Is In The Date
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Liquidated damages could undo a settlement agreement
November 30, 2023 - Shutterstock A settlement agreement is typically the capstone of a successful mediation. Parties in a legal dispute have worked with the mediat...
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California Narrows At-Will Employment Window
November 29, 2023 - One of the fundamental tenets of employ-ment law is that, unless the parties have negotiated and signed a contract to the contrary, all employment is...
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A View from The Hague
November 27, 2023 - Shutterstock Scott M. Gordon is a neutral with Signature Resolution, and a member of the International Hague Network of Judges. I had the distin...