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What is your profession and title?: Mediator

What is your ADR experience? (trainings and education): Mediation degrees and practicum, community and workplace mediation experience

What, if any, ADR organizations or groups do you belong to?: IOA, Mediate.com

What are you hoping to get from ADRhub.com: ADR Community

Do you/your company have a website?: http://www.mediate.com

What other ADR related sites do you visit?: www.mediate.com, www.conflict.uoregon.edu, www.crescareer.wordpress.com, www.fairlylegal.wordpress.com

Clare Fowler's Blog

Fairly Legal: A Win/Win? The decision has been made and it's ...

Posted on January 25, 2011 at 1:30pm 0 Comments 0 Likes

There is clearly a lot of ruckus around this show right now.

I propose that this ruckus is a “win/win” (to quote Kate Reed).

1) This show has sparked a few debates in the mediation world: “Fairly Legal is a perversion of the truth!”, “‘Fairly Legal??’ The double-entendre of the name alone is enough to make people think mediation is a laughing stock!”, and my favorite “With mediators portrayed like Kate Reed, clients will be expecting mediators to look and act like Kate…

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Fairly Legal: Positives

Posted on January 24, 2011 at 3:04pm 1 Comment 0 Likes

Reposted from www.FairlyLegal.wordpress.com. Click there for full blog and additional posts.

First--if you're a mediator--you know that most people think the mediation profession is a misspelled form of meditation. Simply put: the average TV watcher is just not that familiar with what mediation is.

Most common response when I tell people I'm a mediator (after their eyes have glazed over): "So, you like do…

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