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Publications

 

  •  Daily Journal - Office hours with the mediator - April 2025 


  • Daily Journal - A new paradigm for mediation: the role of "Bearing witness - July 2023


  • Daily Journal - Strategies for addressing discrimination in civil disputes - May 2021


  • The Future of ADR After the Coronavirus - Los Angeles Lawyer Magazine - June 2020


  • Making Virtual Mediation A Reality: A Primer for Women Lawyers of Los Angeles - WLALA May, 2020


  • Daily Journal - Mediation at ground zero: The case for virtual dispute resolution - March 2020


  • The Advocate - Fresh insights - April 2020


  • Daily Journal - Rules of disengagement: Does the mediation ever end? – November 2019


  • LA Lawyer - Importance of “Form” and “Content” in Settlement Agreements - November 2019


  • ABA - #METOO WHERE CONFIDENTIALITY AND TRANSPARENCY COLLIDE - September/October 2019


  • The Advocate - Watch your language! - August 2019


  • Daily Journal - Say it like you mean it - July 2019


  • Daily Journal - Should lawyers and mediators also play the role of therapists? - February 2019


  • Dispute Resolution Magazine - Where Confidentiality and Transparency Collide - Winter 2019


  • Daily Journal - The case for adding empathy to your legal practice - December 2018


  • Daily Journal - Lessons in communication that you didn’t learn in law school - November 2018


  • The Advocate - The Science of Negotiation - August 2018


  • Daily Journal - Naked Truth - August 2018


  • Transformative Moments in Commercial Mediation


  • Ms. Schau's Daily Journal Profile


  • The Value of Pre-Litigation Mediation - 2018


  • The Advocate - Pushing past impasse - August 2016


  • The Advocate - The tail that wags the dog - June 2016


  • Daily Journal - Don't Forget Critical eleventh-hour Issues - July 2015


  • Daily Journal - Workplace Mediation


  • Mediate.com - Time Travelling: A Vision for the Future Through Three Dimensional Glasses - February 2015


  • The Advocate - Getting The Most Out Of Your "At BATTs" - September 2014


  • The Advocate - Critical Mistakes Lawyers Make Mediating Employment Cases - June 2014


  • Book Review - Cloke and LeBaron - May 2014


  • Daily Journal - Perfection: Not all it's cracked up to be - September 2013


  • Daily Journal - Fast and roughly right: a new strategy for decision-making - July 2013


  • Daily Journal - Book Review - Mediating tragedy: deciding who gets what when disaster strikes - November 2012


  • Daily Journal - Book Review - Stories Mediators Tell (ABA Section of Dispute Resolution) - May 2012


  • Daily Journal - Book Review - Get better results: Plan for negotiation, not trial - March 2012


  • ABTL LA - Enforcing Mediated Settlement Agreements in the age of Facebook - Winter 2012


  • WLALA - Highlighting the 97% Litigators Winning Cases Without Going to War - February 2012


  • Daily Journal - Book Review - Restorative Justice: a movement that looks beyond our current legal system - January 2012


  • Ye Shall Know the Truth, Advocate - September 2011


  • Daily Journal - Book Review: Complacency no more - September 2011


  • IAMED Newsletter - Book Review - Mediation Ethics


  • Is Mediations Still Fairly Legal, LA Lawyer, June 2011


  • Winning Your Case Without Going to Court, Successful Mediation Techniques, Verdict December 2010


  • To The Unsung Mediators: A Recap of the IAM Conference in Nashville, Tennessee


  • In Mediators We Trust: New Issues In Confidentiality, Century City Lawyer, April 2011


  • IAM Mediation Newsletter No. 36 (July 2010)


  • Dear ADR Participants: Are your secrets really safe with me? Daily Journal, June 25, 2010


  • New Wave Feminism: Gender and Negotiation in the 21st Century


  • Telling lies, telling secrets, The Advocate Magazine, October 2009


  • Clash of the Titans


  • Ethics & Professionalism


  • Book Review: Bernard Mayer's Staying With Conflict: A Strategic Approach To Ongoing Disputes


  • Maximizing your experience in arbitrating the employment case: What consumer attorneys need to know when your clients are required to arbitrate their employment claim. Advocate, May 2007


View From the Middle of the Road, by Jan Frankel Schau (Author)

Every day in mediation offices around the world, parties come together to tell their unique story as it relates to a conflict in their lives. In a single, prescient day, they expect to end their pending litigation. Sometimes the resolution requires money. Other times it requires an apology, an explanation or an agreement to put the conflict behind the disputants and move forward in peace. Sometimes, it just requires an impartial set of ears, an open heart and a willing third party to lead the way with dignity, decency and humanity. Such is the life of a mediator...

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