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| Revealed: The Mysteries Of The Caucus In Mediation |
| Perhaps you're familiar with the routine: After the joint session in mediation, the mediator puts each of the parties with their attorneys into separate rooms. Then the mediator shuttles back and forth between the rooms, conveying offers and demands, pointing out to each of the parties the weaknesses of their case, and explaining why it is in each party's interest to reach a settlement. |
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| Advantages Flow Both Ways When Attorneys Become Mediators |
| The right to a fair and expedient trial is one of the basic tenets on which our legal system is based. When it comes to the latter, however, the continuing backlog of cases under which our court system must continue to operate ensures the process is anything but expedient. Impediment is more like it. |
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| Out Of The Courtroom - Trial Consultants Tap Mediation Market |
| Last year, Kentucky-based trial consultant Mark Modlin worked on 237 cases; only six went to trial. The rest were settled through mediation. |
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| Litigation Tactics In Mediation - Are They Ethical? |
| As litigation counsel, have you at some point bluffed your opponent, protected sensitive information, overstated your case or been less than candid? |
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