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Environmental Law 101: Define Success Before Negotiations; Identify Your Needs and Those of Other Parties.
The time to define success is ahead of a negotiation, not after you have gotten into it. Is success unconditional surrender (as was the case in World War II) or is it a lesser, discrete objective (such as forcing Iraq out of Kuwait during the First Iraq War)? A lot of sloppy, lazy thinking goes into explaining to business executives what it is that they should seek, or expect, from a complex permitting matter or...
Environmental Law 101: Three Step Approach to Get What You Need.
Business does not like government; and it does not like regulation. The fact is that government exists, government regulates and business needs to interface with government in order to get what it wants. Over a forty year career, I've learned that you will get out of government what you convince the government to give to you. Based on my experience, I can summarize a successful approach to getting what you want as follows: Step 1....