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The Jelly Beaner Challenge: How Attorneys Serving As Neutrals Identify And Coordinate The Ethical Mandates Of The 2009 Rules Of Professional Conduct With The Ethical Mandates Of Dispute Resolution, Elayne E. Greenberg Jan 2009

The Jelly Beaner Challenge: How Attorneys Serving As Neutrals Identify And Coordinate The Ethical Mandates Of The 2009 Rules Of Professional Conduct With The Ethical Mandates Of Dispute Resolution, Elayne E. Greenberg

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Many of us may remember as children trying to master the coordination game Jelly Beaner, a joust in which the player is challenged to pat his or her head up and down with one hand while simultaneously rubbing his or her belly in a circular pattern with the other hand. Competing movements, but with practice even those less coordinated can master how to synchronize their hands and play the game. So, too, those of us who are lawyers serving as neutrals are now engaging in a variant of the Jelly Beaner Challenge when it comes to discerning ethical behavior. …