The “Mediate This!” podcast just released a new episode. If you have a few minutes to spare and want to hear attorney and mediator Matthew Brickman and I discuss mediation, cognitive bias, risk perception, how communication styles can make or break a mediation, and artificial intelligence (“AI”) in the mediation room, then here is a podcast that was released on June 19, 2026,
Matthew Brickman is the host of the “Mediate This!” podcast, and I was honored to be a guest on this episode. He is also a Florida Supreme Court certified family and appellate mediator who has worked in the 15th and 19th Judicial Circuit Courts since 2009 and 2006 respectively. But what makes him qualified to speak on the subject of conflict resolution is his own personal experience with divorce.
Paul J. Molinaro, M.D., J.D. is a California mediator and arbitrator who brings a somewhat unusual perspective to dispute resolution. He has practiced medicine for many years before becoming a lawyer and now focus on mediating medical malpractice, personal injury, and other complex injury cases. He has worked on both sides of the medicine–law divide, he often speaks about how physicians, lawyers, and litigants actually think during high-stakes disputes, and how cognitive bias, risk perception, and communication styles can make or break a mediation. He believes that perspective can be useful for attorneys, mediators, and anyone interested in conflict resolution. By way of background, He is a physician since 1991 and a lawyer since 2006, and has recently completed advanced dispute-resolution training at Pepperdine’s Straus Institute. He has currently mediate cases involving medical and bodily injury issues and speak to legal audiences about mediation and negotiation.