{"id":202,"date":"2014-02-18T05:29:51","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T05:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willpryor.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=202"},"modified":"2024-09-11T16:43:18","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T16:43:18","slug":"a-short-and-happy-guide-to-mediation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/willpryor.com\/wordpress\/a-short-and-happy-guide-to-mediation","title":{"rendered":"A Short and Happy Guide to Mediation, 2nd edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"A Short and Happy Guide to Mediation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/A-Short-Happy-Guide-Mediation\/dp\/0314289909\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1391547693&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=a+short+and+happy+guide+to+mediation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-203\" title=\"BOOK_Shadow\" src=\"http:\/\/willpryor.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/BOOK_Shadow-184x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/willpryor.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/BOOK_Shadow-184x300.jpg 184w, http:\/\/willpryor.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/BOOK_Shadow.jpg 393w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/><\/a>A Short and Happy Guide to Mediation<br \/>\nImproving the Mediation Process from<br \/>\nStart to Finish, 2nd edition<br \/>\nby Will Pryor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Short &amp; Happy Guide to Mediation is for lawyers who<br \/>\nwant better results from mediation, clients curious about an upcoming mediation, mediators who want to become more effective, and students who want to explore dispute resolution as a career. What disputes should be mediated? Who gets to be the mediator and how do you choose the right one? How can preparation for a mediation lead to a more successful result? What are some things about the practice of mediation these days that we can improve? A Short &amp; Happy Guide to Mediation addresses these and many other intriguing questions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cYou can make mediation work to your<\/strong> <strong>advantage. There are simple, mostly\u00a0 intuitive <\/strong><strong>things that you can do to improve your overall<\/strong> <strong>experience with the process. The use of mediation <\/strong><strong>is not going away. I wish you success.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Will Pryor has mediated over 5,000 disputes. A graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School, Will has earned a national reputation as a creative and accomplished\u00a0 problem solver. Along the way Will also managed to watch a lot of baseball, teach himself to cook, and raise two fabulous daughters. A former courtroom lawyer, trial court judge, and First Assistant Attorney General of the State of Texas, Will teaches Alternative Dispute Resolution (\u201cADR\u201d) at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. He is a member of the American Law Institute (ALI), and a former member of the Executive Committee of the National<br \/>\nAcademy of Distinguished Neutrals.<\/p>\n<p><em>A Short and Happy Guide to Mediation, 2nd edition,<\/em> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/A-Short-Happy-Guide-Mediation\/dp\/0314289909\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1391547693&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=a+short+and+happy+guide+to+mediation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">available to purchase on Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Short and Happy Guide to Mediation Improving the Mediation Process from Start to Finish, 2nd edition by Will Pryor A Short &amp; Happy Guide to Mediation is for lawyers who want better results from mediation, clients curious about an &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/willpryor.com\/wordpress\/a-short-and-happy-guide-to-mediation\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/willpryor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/202"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/willpryor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/willpryor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/willpryor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/willpryor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/willpryor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538,"href":"http:\/\/willpryor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/202\/revisions\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/willpryor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}