Opening Doors discusses aspects of mediation, negotiation and litigation. Steve Schulwolf talks to different guests about the benefits of mediation and mediators' techniques, and how judges, litigators, and experts view mediation. Other episodes analyze how conflict resolution is impacted by whether the dispute is predominantly legal, factual, or emotional. Opening Doors is informal and an unscripted discussion and even uses games to illustrate some points. The door is open, come join us!

Opening Doors to Resolution: A Mediation Podcast
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Podcast Overview
Opening Doors discusses aspects of mediation, negotiation and litigation. Steve Schulwolf talks to different guests about the benefits of mediation and mediators' techniques, and how judges, litigators, and experts view mediation. Other episodes analyze how conflict resolution is impacted by whether the dispute is predominantly legal, factual, or emotional. Opening Doors is informal and an unscripted discussion and even uses games to illustrate some points. The door is open, come join us!
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Publishing Since
12/26/2019
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Recent Episodes

March 31, 2021
Episode 14: The Supreme Episode
The Supreme Court has only had seventeen men serve as Chief Justice. Chicago attorney Dan Cotter writes about all of them in The Chief Justices: The Seventeen Men of the Center Seat, Their Courts, and Their Times. While legal theory instructs lawyers to analyze the law and not the circumstances surrounding its creation, Cotter embraces an overall historical approach. Many Supreme Court justices have been defined by the landmark rulings they delivered. Cotter shows how some rulings, like Dre…

February 19, 2021
Episode 13: Winter is Coming
Steve discusses all aspects of mediation with fellow mediator, Winter Wheeler. The two discuss their transitions from experienced litigators to full-time mediators, including their mediation philosophies and building their practices. The two discuss mediation via Zoom, anti-bias standards for mediators and the importance of language and its impact on the legal system, focusing on the African-American vernacular.

January 27, 2021
Episode 12: What Happens in Mediation Stays in Mediation . . . Right?
A bedrock principle for mediation is its confidentiality. Arguments made at mediation are typically not admissible in court. Nationally renowed mediator, Jeff Kichaven, has been virtually touring the country presenting a provocative theme: your mediation might not be confidential. Jeff tells Steve that whether a mediation is confidential is determined by the court hearing an attack on confidentiality and if it is a different forum from where the mediation took place, which Restatement that…
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