Jeff Daar And Gary Benton Receive Awards For Past And Continuing Contributions To Alternative Dispute Resolution. The California Lawyers Association held its annual meeting this past weekend at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Universal City. Jeff Daar and Gary Benton received awards for outstanding contributions to the profession and to ADR. Both Jeff and Gary […]
Typepad announced rather precipitously that this blog would become extinct at the end of September 2025. Yikes! We had to scramble to migrate this blog from Typepad to a new platform. Since we have published this blog since 2012, and it has 1200 posts about California mediation and arbitration, it seemed worth expending some time, […]
Happy Thanksgiving! "A Thanksgiving Truce" A Thanksgiving Truce. 1905. Puck. Library of Congress description: Illustration shows Theodore Roosevelt, wearing his rough rider uniform, sharing a feast with many wild animals sitting around a large banquet table in the wilderness. A bear is making a toast. "Teddy Jr.", wearing buckskin, is sitting on a rock at […]
HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY July 4th tourists, NYC, 1969. Bernard Gotfryd, photographer. Library of Congress.
Another Trip Around The Sun — Happy New Year ! WELCOME! And Let Us Hope You Will Be A Real HAPPY New Year. Puck. 1895.
A Break From Blogging . . . Readers of this blog may have noticed that I took a break from blogging. During the break I hiked in Valley of Fire (NV) and Death Valley (CA). The photo above was taken in Death Valley in an area called "Artist's Palette".
My Perspective. I've written an article about mediator settlement proposals and it is published in the July 2023 issue of Advocate. For my readers interested in the topic, here is a link to the article: Download Alexander-July23-article
On The Occasion Of Our 247th Fourth Of July . . . Photo credit to Amy Widdowson, publisher of The Morning Missive https://substack.com/@amy (Amy also made the cake)
Typepad Has Cured Its Problems. I have been using the Typepad platform since 2012 to post this blog. Typepad recently had problems with its system, and I stopped posting until I felt assured that the system was stable. Now the problems, whatever their origin, appear to be fixed. So I hope to catch up […]
We've Authored An Article About Attorney Fees And The Risk Of Malpractice Exposure In The October 2022 Issue Of Orange County Lawyer. "Attorney Fees: A Potential Malpractice Minefield," authored by Marc Alexander and appearing in the October 2022 issue of Orange County Lawyer, discusses the "unhappy case" of Shahrokh Mireskandari v. Edwards Wildman Palmer, […]