Messages From PGP Mediation

Messages From PGP Mediation

Knitting while Zooming!

For the past three years, many of us have been living on Zoom or a similar video conference platform. And?no doubt, many times our attention and minds have wondered, and we find ourselves looking?[Read More]

How Do You Approach Resolving Conflicts?

In their book, Essentials of Negotiation, Roy J. Lewicki, David M. Saunders and Bruce Barry (7th ed., McGraw-Hill, New York, 2021) set out the traditional negotiation styles. They include: Contending (also called competing or dominating)?[Read More]

The Future Has Become the Present!

This past Sunday, 60 Minutes had a segment on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and more specifically, on BARD – the AI program created by Google. During the segment, Scott Pelley asked BARD to create a short?[Read More]

AI Admits it will not replace me anytime soon!

Spoiler Alert: Much of the content below is computer generated created not by my brain but by computer “intelligence”! As a follow up to my blog last week about the use of AI, I decided?[Read More]

Mediation Confidentiality is Being Threatened Once Again!

On Valentine’s day, 2023, Assembly member Jesse Gabriel introduced AB 924 to be added as Section 1770 to the California Code of Civil Procedure. Entitled, Alternative dispute resolution: complaints, it currently reads: SECTION 1.?Title?[Read More]

Honking is NOT Free Speech!

Every once in a while, I read about a case that has nothing to do with mediation other than creativity and feel compelled to write about it. As I have noted previously, there is one?[Read More]

Even Our Four-Legged Friends Face Bias!

The Westminster Dog Show was held earlier this month, and I watched part of it. Owning two English Springer Spaniels, I watched the Sporting Group competition and then the Best in Show competition in which?[Read More]

But…It is The Principle of the Thing!

The Harvard PONS blog posted an interesting tale about a billionaire who bought a 53-acre parcel for $37.5 million encompassing Martin’s Beach in 2008. In?“When our “Principles “Crash up Against our Negotiation Goals,” by?[Read More]

Misremembering Within Seconds!

In the?process of resolving any dispute, the parties usually begin by reciting the facts. Only after the facts are set out and the parties are generally in accord?with what occurred, do the parties?[Read More]

Disclosing a Conflict of Interest is Not Necessarily the Best Solution!

In our day-to-day living, we have encountered those (and indeed it may even be us) who have had a conflict of interest and so have disclosed it. It may have been our real estate?broker?[Read More]

The Downsides to Negotiating via Video Conference!

A recent survey ( NADN-2022-SurveyOfLitigators-ViewsOnODR[64656])?conducted by the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals found that prior to the pandemic and lock down in March 2020 only about 2% of litigation attorneys had ever attended?[Read More]

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PGP Mediation | Los Angeles-Area Dispute Resolution

Mediation is a voluntary, confidential form of conflict resolution, which is designed to help parties find viable resolutions with the help of a neutral, third-party mediator. Phyllis Pollack, President of PGP Mediation in Los Angeles, California, has mediated more than 2,000 disputes for individuals and businesses in the past 19+ years.

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Very interesting article about knitting while zooming!

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Rachel King

Owner of King Law Firm, Attorneys at Law Inc. Specializing in Elder Abuse Litigation, Probate Litigation, and Conservatorships. Consultations ?? 951-834-7715 | Get my book "Getting Divorced, Now What?" Link below ??

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That's amazing! Thanks for sharing!

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Paulina Velarde-Barrera

Abogada - Experta en Métodos Alternos de Solución de Conflictos

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Greetings from Quito - Ecuador

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