Alternative Dispute Resolution
Apr. 16, 2016
Dancing with lawyers
In the context of resolving cases at mediation, the rules of the dance are these: Every dance must start with a demand. Every demand must be met with an offer. And so on.
Robert S. Mann
Neutral
ADR Services, Inc.
Email: rmann@adrservices.com
Robert mediates and arbitrates business, real estate and construction disputes.
For most of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, a dance was an extremely formal, rule-driven process. There was the box step of the waltz and the mincing footwork of the minuet, not to mention the Irish jig. Somewhere along the line, it's hard to say exactly when, but probably in the 1920s, all that changed and whatever remaining formalities were pretty much obliterated by the time that rock music came along in the 50s and 60s. Oddly, however, the "dance" in the context of negotiating settl...
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