While alternative dispute resolution has ancient roots, professional mediation has become a modern and increasingly favored method of resolving legal disputes. It offers a structured process for ...

Mediation is a process where a neutral third party—the mediator—assists disputing parties in reaching a mutually satisfactory agreement. It is an essential tool in conflict resolution, particularly in ...

The adversarial system of litigation is not one that engenders trust among counterparties. So, it makes sense for people to expect the worst of one another when they arrive at the negotiation table.

An impressive presentation impacts the settlement value of the case and inspires your client to send you more work.

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 ...

This is a guest post by my colleague Ekaterina Ricci, a mediator with a Master's in Dispute Resolution and a Master's in Legal Studies. Your roommate’s been eating your food. Your boss has been ...

The program manager estimates around 50 landlord-tenant cases in Sedgwick County had been mediated as of late September, more than a year after the program begun. Meanwhile, the county typically sees ...

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Mediation may be what it takes to get Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas' messy divorce out of the headlines. Lawyers for the estranged couple met in federal court in Manhattan Tuesday where they agreed to a ...

As one player agent surmised, Major League Baseball’s push for federal mediation in collective bargaining talks is a “win-win” for the commissioner’s office, even if MLB knows the players are unlikely ...