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Amanda looks at how to demonstrate a track record, marketing yourself to your chosen sectors and developing a reputation for something unique.
Mark Jackson-Stops provides advice to solicitors on preparation for mediation, how they should prepare their clients and what their role might be in the mediation itself.
Pre-thinking the Settlement Agreement As every litigation lawyer knows, drafting a settlement agreement or consent order at the end of a successful mediation can be exhausting. Energy levels are low and it can be a struggle to concentrate. But this is the most important part of the process beca...
Today, 9th March 2015, could mark the beginning of the end of the litigious approach to the resolution of disputes.
I recall that mediation in the UK started in the 1990s with a period when those setting up mediations began by choosing the mediator and then involved the mediator from the early stages. It hit a phase in the last decade when the choice of the mediator became entirely secondary to the fixing of...
Bill Marsh, in a Kluwer Mediation Blog, reflects on the differing needs and requirements of mediation participants, and a trend for parties to require mediators to provide views on the merits of the case. Marsh suggests mediators and parties need to collaborate to mould the most effective process.
US mediator, Bennett G Picker, in an article for the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR), considers the importance of preparation for mediation by party representatives.
In the United States, there is an increasing tendency to ditch the plenary session in mediation and to rely on the mediator to act as the go-between throughout. Eric Galton and Tracy Allen, both top mediators in the USA, plead for this trend to be reversed and to allow the parties themselves to ...
Jeff Krivis discusses the different types of argument available to protagonists and suggests that the rhetorical model is best suited to success in mediation.
Liz Rivers, In Place of Strife mediator, writes that everyone benefits when women have a voice in decisions.
John Sturrock QC, a leading mediator based in Edinburgh, explains how a collaborative approach to dispute avoidance and resolution is growing in the business world.
Jane Andrewartha, David Cornes, David Miles and David Richbell, members of PIM Senior Mediators, examine the likely impact on mediators and mediation.