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Litigation

Jan. 29, 2011

Identifying and Managing Difficult, High Conflict Personality Clients

How to work with difficult, high conflict personality clients. By full time mediator Paul Fisher.


By Paul Fisher


How many times have you worked with a client who, at first, appears to be an appealing and charming individual; an unfortunate victim of someone else's wrongdoing? Later, you realize the client is chronically adversarial, manipulative, inflexible, unreasonable, impossible to please and takes no responsibility for problems he or she has helped create. As explained by forensic psychologist Sherrie Bourg Carter: "They believe that their disto...

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