On YouTube, Litigation Can Kill You: What Does Mediation Have to Do with It?
(right: Carmela Soprano Files for Divorce)
I spent a great deal of time yesterday editing a video (my abysmal webcam and video editing skills live at Geoff Sharp's Mediation vBlog this morning do not beging to do justice to the intelligence and insight of Milan Slama, a community and business mediator who is the subject of the interview).
In the process, I "grazed" around YouTube (see my YouTube page here) to see what kinds of mediation and litigation videos people have uploaded.
I'm sorry to report that most of them are in these varieties:
- the "mediate because you really don't have access to justice" variety here and here -- delay; expense; "out of control nightmare";
- the angry "mediation (or litigation) doesn't work" genre -- here and here.
- the crazed litigant gunman here and here (the "adversarial process -- or even a patent application -- can kill you" narrative)'
- the "only lawyer you can afford is drunk" variety and, finally, to lighten the mood,
- the "we're Italian; we don't believe in divorce" Tony Soprano-style here.
At Geoff Sharp's MediationvBlog however, you'll see some pretty high level discussions about both the benefits and the challenges of both mediation and litigation for attorneys, mediators, judges and, lest we forget, clients.
There are a few words on negotiation tactics and strategy there as well.
Check it out.
