by sumac | Jun 5, 2013 | Institutional Apologies
In November 2012, some Half Moon Bay residents reported cats under their porch. Mountain lion-type cats. Cougars. Pumas. Panthers. Catamounts. (The different names have political implications. I’ll try to use them randomly.) Sheriffs confirmed cats under the...
by sumac | Dec 7, 2012 | Institutional Apologies
Outbursts in the courtroom are generally frowned on by judges, and sometimes punished harshly. In Putnam County, West Virginia. Judge William Watkins III was the source of many of the outbursts. Watkins, a family court judge, began presiding in 2002, and was...
by snarly | Nov 20, 2012 | Academic apologies, Apology Essentials, Corporate Apologies, Institutional Apologies, Other Apologies, The Mechanics of Apology
My college roommate, Deborah Levi, was brilliant. (She died of breast cancer at 34.) Her New York University Law Review article on the role of apology in mediation is still cited all over the place (Google it – I’ll wait) and reflects who she was: A person with an...