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King Charles Doesn’t Fully Apologize to Kenyans

November 4, 2023 – 12:34 pm

The controversy over King Charles’s remarks in Kenya this week highlights the difference between a “full-blown” apology and a statement of regret. King Charles sounded quite sincere when he noted, “The wrongdoings of the past are the source of greatest sorrow and deepest regret” regarding colonial atrocities by British forces in Kenya in the 1950s. […]

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A Plea-Deal Apology by a Trump Lawyer

October 28, 2023 – 1:05 pm

Jenna Ellis, one of President Donald Trump’s attorneys after the November 2020 election, pled guilty this week in a Georgia court to aiding and abetting false statements and writings, a felony. In December 2020, she joined Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Ray Smith in making false allegations to the Georgia Senate Judiciary Committee that thousands […]

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2023 Nanci Klein Award from the ADR Section

October 26, 2023 – 4:57 pm

I was honored this week to receive the Nanci S. Klein Award from the ADR Section of the State Bar of Michigan. Nanci Klein was an early ADR leader in Michigan who devoted her considerable talents to the Community Dispute Resolution Program (CDRP), including leading Michigan’s largest CDRP provider, the Oakland Mediation Center, for ten […]

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Meeting Missouri Mediators

October 16, 2023 – 4:48 pm

The Association of Missouri Mediators graciously welcomed me last month as one of the speakers for a day of advanced mediation training. I taught a session on Apologies in Mediation, and also conducted the “Ethics Game.” The training was a hybrid of people in person as well as on Zoom. I thoroughly enjoyed my experience […]

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SBC CEO Candidate Apologizes

August 21, 2023 – 4:31 pm

A finalist to head the Southern Baptist Convention included an apology in his resignation last week. Willie McLaurin, the interim president and CEO of the SBC Executive Committee, admitted that he had falsified his resume, and had not graduated from any of the institutions listed. In his resignation letter, submitted to the SBC Executive Committee, […]

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