The American [sic] Bar Association's Annual Meeting will be held this coming week in Toronto [sic] and promises the usual array of gifted and unique presenters, as well as mucho networking and conviviality. Blue Jays are unfortunately on the road, but you can't have everything, eh? ...
If nothing is ever as simple as it looks, then the seemingly simple rules of mediation confidentiality are particularly complex. A group of colleagues was discussing the following hypothetical and could reach no clear conclusion: A mediation session concludes with defendant's counsel agreeing to revert to his (governmental) client to determine if...
There has been an uncharacteristic spate of impasses lately in my practice. Sitting back and examining why, the conclusion might be that one or more of the parties didn't come to the mediation to move ahead to the next stage in their business. They came to it to re-affirm the past, to...