BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Harvard Law School//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Harvard Law School - Events X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hls.harvard.edu/calendar/ X-WR-CALDESC:Harvard Law School - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251202T1939Z-1764704363.5876-EO-734131-1@10.73.7.237 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260411T165703Z CREATED:20251202T134727Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251202T150641Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260127T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260127T130000 SUMMARY: PON Live! Book Talk: The Art of Impasse-Breaking in Mediation DESCRIPTION: In this webinar\, David Hoffman will share key lessons from hi s book\, The Art of Impasse-Breaking in Mediation\, published by the Americ an Bar Association in December 2025. David’s talk will focus in particular on identifying settlement barriers\, overcoming psychological obstacles to settlement\, preventing impasses\, range-bargaining\, and a variety of medi ator interventions\, such as risk analysis […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

In this webinar\, David Hoffman will share key lessons from his book\, The Art of Impasse-Breaking in Mediation\, published by the American Bar Association in December 2025. David’s t alk will focus in particular on identifying settlement barriers\, overcomin g psychological obstacles to settlement\, preventing impasses\, range-barga ining\, and a variety of mediator interventions\, such as risk analysis and mediator’s proposals. David will then take questions from attendees on any topic (e.g.\, lessons from the book and insights from his 33 years of medi ation).

CATEGORIES:Speaker/Panel LOCATION:Zoom GEO:40.712728;-74.006015 ORGANIZER;CN="Kenneth D. Russell":MAILTO:kerussell@law.harvard.edu URL;VALUE=URI:https://hls.harvard.edu/events/pon-live-book-talk-the-art-of- impasse-breaking-in-mediation/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/DH-photo-scaled-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20251102T060000 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR