Alternative Dispute Resolution
Oct. 30, 2010
Creative Negotiations
Neutral Jan Frankel Schau uses innovative approaches to help opposing parties find common ground.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Jan Frankel Schau remembers vividly the day an attorney walked into a mediation holding a plastic bag filled with bedbugs to show the defendant, a landlord, just how skin-crawlingly revolting the insects could be.
The plaintiffs, a young couple, had brought a habitability lawsuit against the landlord because of their bedbug-ridden apartment in Los Angeles. After drawing up a potential settlement that ...
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