Your roommate’s been eating your food. Your boss has been ignoring your emails. Your neighbor’s music shakes your walls at 2 a.m. You’ve tried talking, but it spirals into the same script every time: ...

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 ...

A common definition of mediation is a process with an impartial neutral who assists the parties in resolving a dispute. In most civil litigation mediations, the goal is a final settlement agreement.

Mediation is an effort by a third party to encourage parties to a dispute to voluntarily reach an agreement to resolve their dispute. 2. Types of Mediation There are currently four types of mediation ...

Mediation offers the unique opportunity to have open discussions, control risk, manage cost and resolve litigation on predictable and agreed upon terms. Yet, even seasoned attorneys frequently fall ...

The purpose of this article is to set out guidelines for counsel and their clients to prepare an informative and productive mediation statement. Preparing an effective mediation statement is a ...

This article unpacks the scope of the courts’ power to compel reluctant parties to participate in court-annexed mediation. The big question is whether a party’s subjective belief that mediation would ...