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More on Public Apologies

April 13, 2017 – 10:15 am

Today’s New York Times has an article saying, more eloquently and thoroughly than I could have, what I was suggesting in yesterday’s post about the difficulty of making a good public apology, as exemplified this week by White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer and United Airlines CEO Oscar Munez.

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Public Apologies Are Tough to Get Right

April 12, 2017 – 10:14 am

Two apologies are evolving in this week’s news cycle: from White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, regarding his comparison of Syria’s use of chemical weapons to Hitler’s, and from United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz regarding the passenger who was forcibly removed from a plane this week. Each man has offered successive apologies, after his original apology was […]

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My Hero

March 30, 2017 – 8:09 pm

Faithful, strong, generous, smart, caring, witty, honest, interested and interesting – these are only some of the qualities I admired in the man who is my hero. He would laugh when I would tell him he was my hero. He would reply, “Many people have it much worse than I do.” But I’m not sure […]

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Court-Ordered Apology

March 22, 2017 – 8:18 am

Of what value is a judge-ordered apology? A Michigan court ordered a state official last week to apologize to Flint residents for her role in perpetuating the Flint water crisis. Will it help the official? Will it help Flint residents feel better? There may be some value to the “offender,” who is forced to face […]

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Grievance Filed Against Attorney-Mediator

December 28, 2016 – 8:50 pm

How much must a mediator disclose to the parties about the mediator’s social relationship with one party’s attorney? That question is at the heart of a complaint filed by the Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission against an attorney-mediator in a divorce case who failed to disclose to the husband’s attorney during the course of their year-long […]

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