Last time we began our discussion of the mistakes lawyers and their clients make in settling eminent domain cases with an overview of an article entitled: Let’s Not Make a Deal: An Empirical Study of Decision Making in Unsuccessful Settlement Negotiations co-authored by Randall L. Kaiser et al.[1] As you will recall, the Kaiser article [...]
settlement mistakes
Lawyers and their clients make mistakes in settling eminent domain cases … sometimes big mistakes. A study published in 2008 developed a number of interesting results that can inform what we do as lawyers, mediators, arbitrators, condemnors, and condemnees called on to settle eminent domain cases.[1] The study looked at three data sets; 2,054 cases [...]
