An American author, lawyer, mediator and negotiation trainer and consultant based in Los Angeles

The Grownups’ ABC’s of Conflict Resolution is a primer on the way in which disputes develop and can be resolved without fear and upset. Within its pages, you'll learn how to deepen and maintain your friendships when conflict threatens to disrupt them; how to deal with bullies of all sorts; how disputes arise out of contests over scarce resources or conflicting values; how to make peace across religious, national, racial and political divides; and, why we and our fellows are sometimes kind and cooperative and at others malicious and combative.  Follow the ABCs on its blog, on Facebook and on Twitter

Along with my partner Lisa Gates, I launched the ForbesWoman She Negotiates Blog this December.  All of my other articles for ForbesWoman and Forbes.com can be found here.

I blog on legal topics at Forbes.com

I write about the mediation and arbitration of the same type of commercial disputes I litigated and tried during a twenty-five year legal career including antitrust, securities fraud, intellectual property, unfair competition, and, nationwide consumer class actions in the insurance, garment, financial, consumer product, commercial real estate, construction and health care industries. I have been blogging on these topics at the Negotiation Law Blog since 2006.