Commercial Mediation
Legally Yours, together with the Silicon Beach Group, presented a virtual legal lunch and learn session
Legally Yours, together with the Silicon Beach Group, presented a virtual legal lunch and learn session with Rakesh Nairn from Daxcel Financial on Wednesday 5th August 2020. 2020 has been challenging but your tax return doesn’t have to be. In this session, we look at some of 2020’s top tax myths and clarify areas to […]
Legally Yours, together with the Silicon Beach Group, presented a virtual legal lunch and learn session with Stephen Macdonald and Emily Knowles from Human Inc on Tuesday 14th July 2020. This session focuses on wellbeing specifically for founders leveraging both passion and excitement but also the watch-outs around the dark side of entrepreneurial passion. Key […]
One topic that has been coming up regularly in my recent client discussions has been the need to adjust our negotiations for the current online environment. The fact that face-to-face conversations have been restricted, and will continue to be restricted to some degree at least for the foreseeable future, is something that we need to […]
Negotiation is one of the most commonly used skills of anyone in business. From negotiating roles and responsibilities with staff to supply agreements to customer contracts, negotiations are at the heart of almost every corporate interaction. Despite the importance of this skill, very few people are ever taught to negotiate. They learn through trial and […]
In a world of social distancing, many commercial disputes which would ordinarily be mediated face-to-face need a new solution. Many mediators have been finding that clients have postponed their mediations. Partly, this is because people just have other things on their mind at the moment. But also, I think there’s a real confusion around what […]
It has been said that the biggest problem with preparing for negotiations is not faulty preparation but the absence of preparation at all. Partly, this is possibly driven by the constant pace at which we rush through the work day and the increasing demands on our time. Another big contributor to this problem is a lack of […]
In our digital world it is becoming more and more common to do business with people we have never met or even spoken to. This means of course that we are negotiating to get deals done in a situation where we may not have had the opportunity to build rapport and a business relationship with […]
Silence is a funny thing. It can often make us feel uncomfortable. When a silence is left in a conversation, it is normal for the people in that conversation to start feeling a little uncomfortable. Inevitably, one person will break the silence and move the conversation on. In a negotiation, you can use silence to […]
In this episode, Donna Ross from Donna Ross Dispute Resolution shares with us her best practice when it comes to optimising the online dispute resolution process. For more information on Donna Ross Dispute Resolution, click here Do you need legal advice? For quick legal advice, you can choose a Request Match or browse Our Lawyers. […]