I recently participated in two mediations, one as plaintiffs counsel and one as defense counsel, while they both successfully brought to a close the underlying cases, the parties to each had a ...

It is impossible to talk about the future, present or past of mediation without putting some sort of definition to that term. Clearly, mediation as dispute resolution has been around as long as ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Richard Gunn writes about the concept of mediations: for Marx, mediations of the contradictions inherent in the commodity-form (the central contradiction is between use-value and exchange-value, and ...

While parties to a dispute may think of mediation as one or two sessions in which the parties and counsel meet with a mediator first jointly and then in separate caucuses, in complex business or ...

Yogi Berra once said, “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” Well, I am going to make a prediction that in-person mediations will never be the same. Even before COVID-19 and ...

Mediation is a process of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) where a neutral third party facilitates negotiations among adversaries and seeks, but does not impose, a settlement of the dispute.

An explanation of the potential options available when a party fails to comply with a contractual mediation condition precedent to binding dispute resolution and practical tips for properly drafting ...