“To be against settlement is not to urge that parties be ‘forced’ to litigate [...] To be against settlement is only to suggest that when the parties settle, society gets less than what appears, and for a price it does not know it is paying. Parties might settle while leaving justice undone [...] To settle for something means to accept less than some ideal.” (more…)
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Law School Quote of the Day #15
Posted in Class politics, Conflict & Dialectics, Going to law school, Labour movement, Quote of the Day, tagged alternative dispute resolution, bargaining, compromise, conflict, dispute resolution, labour law, labour movement, labour negotiation, Miriam Martin, unions on January 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Law School Quote of the Day #14
Posted in Class politics, Conflict & Dialectics, Going to law school, Labour movement, Quote of the Day, tagged aggressive negotiator, alternative dispute resolution, bargaining, cooperative negotor, dispute resolution, labour lawyers, labour movement, labour negotiation, negotiation, win-win negotiation on January 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“If I am a cooperative negotiator and I lay out my facts, and if you are cooperative, and you lay out your facts, then the two of us, as objective, fair-minded adults, can solve any problem … But aggressive negotiators do not see themselves primarily as problem solvers … they are warriors. Their strategy assumes the other side is an enemy to be attacked and defeated and their strategy is well adapted to that end … The question is not: Which strategy should I invariably use? but rather: How can I develop sufficiently as a negotiator that I can appropriately invoke one or the other, depending on the requirements of the situation?” (more…)
Things I’m appreciating in Ottawa:
WAY more amazing free stuff to do, non-stop festivals, francais francais francais, cheaper quicker flights to Europe, my dad and gramma C, real fall colours, crickets, good shawarma, more local brews, awesome bike paths, it has the most "educated people" per capita of any Canadian city ... wait, maybe that's not a good thing!
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