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Incompatible Stories

Sunday, September 13th, 2009

Posted here is an invitation to colleagues in the field of family business conflict resolution, to pool our experience and insights about one of the most difficult impasses we frequently face in consulting to family firms. Your feedback will be greatly appreciated, whether as comments on this thread or privately as email. Please also bring [...]

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Trustee willing to settle for fee of $120M

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Former Cleveland Indians owner Dick Jacobs sues his niece and nephews for compensation of $120M. To be fair, that’s only $8M a year for 15 years’ service as the trustee of their father’s estate.

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Suicide is Painless?

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Tony Packo’s Cafe in Toledo, Ohio, became famous in the US and Canada when Klinger, the cross-dressing Corporal in M*A*S*H, played by Toledo native Jamie Farr, mentioned Packo’s hot dogs in several episodes. Now the Packo family have made their own headlines crossing lawsuits over power, money, insults and hurt feelings.

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“Crazy” Sister vs. “Power-hungry” Brother

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Chronic mental illness impairs one in every eight or ten adults. Which of us doesn’t have a relative—an aunt, uncle, cousin or in-law if not a parent, child, sibling, or spouse—suffering from long term inability to behave rationally and reliably in the adult world?

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What Would Rockwell Do?

Friday, December 28th, 2007

Three brothers have been fighting in court for 13 years over an estate that includes a dozen of Norman Rockwell’s most famous paintings.

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