Michael Leathes

Anyone managing international business disputes needs to understand the Singapore Convention on Mediation. Not just its terms and limitations, but the reasons why certain matters are included and why…

My February 4, 2019 post What if Mediation Science Originated in the Real World? sparked much useful comment. Many people said they regretted the deficiency of negotiation and mediation field…

Early in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1891 short story A Scandal in Bohemia, Sherlock Holmes gives Watson a lecture on the difference between seeing and observing. To test how well Watson understood,…

While working on the manuscript for a book published last year (Negotiation: Things Corporate Counsel need to know but were not taught - Wolters Kluwer, 2017), I submitted a draft to an eclectic peer…

Days after June's UK Brexit Referendum, US Secretary of State John Kerry advised that: It is absolutely essential that we stay focused on how, in this transitional period, nobody looses their head,…

whereby F=The Future,  T=Trust,  Q=Quality and  I=Information   The Future of mediation hangs on several factors. Probably the most important is Trust. If mediation is not widely trusted by users, it…

It is one of the defining characteristics of professions whose stakeholders invest great trust in their practitioners. Doctors make the Hippocratic Oath. Accountants, lawyers, police officers,…

Being responsible for resolving a large number of disputes for any organization is a stressful occupation. It involves risk, cost and resources and navigating between leadership and management,…

In his now famous Stanford Commencement Address in June 2005, Steve Jobs remarked: "Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices…