Law / Law Firms / Updates
“It Was Twenty Years Ago Today”: Perspectives on the Passing of a Great Law Firm
By David Hoffman On December 7, 2002, the partners at Hill & Barlow – a venerable, 107-year-old Boston law firm – voted →
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Mediation / Updates
Mediation Goes to the Movies
By David Hoffman Mediators often say that our services would be more widely used if people saw mediation on TV or in →
Bias / Unconscious Bias / Updates
Follow the Science: Proven Strategies for Reducing Unconscious Bias
By David Hoffman and Helen Winter [The following is adapted from an article with the same title to be published in the Harvard →
Family Law / Law / Mediation
Communications Guidelines
By David A. Hoffman In a recent family-business mediation, I was asked by the family members to help them develop a communications →
Staff Meetings
By David A, Hoffman Does anyone actually enjoy staff meetings? Perhaps some people like them more than others. But at Boston Law →
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The End of Roe v. Wade: An Appalling Decision by the U.S. Supreme Court
By David A. Hoffman When I was 19 years old, my 17-year-old girlfriend got pregnant. It was 1966, and abortion was illegal. →
Law / Updates
In Praise of Mediation Observers
By David Hoffman Like many mediators, I am asked from time to time by mediators-in-training whether they might observe one of my →
Law / Updates
Law as a Spiritual Practice
By David A. Hoffman If you are reading these words, thank you! You have gotten past the title, which for some people →
Employment / Updates
The Use of NDAs in Workplace Sexual Misconduct Cases: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
By Jody Newman Having spent decades representing victims in sex discrimination, sexual harassment, and sexual assault cases, I came to see the →
We Need to Talk: America’s Ongoing Epidemic of Anti-Asian Bias
By Jenna Goodman Growing up as a Korean American adoptee, I was often the only person who looked like me in my →