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David and Goliath legal dispute over cauliflower thins settled after mediation

A year after cauliflower-fueled startup Outer ...more

Consider Mediation Instead Of Going To Court

It’s less expensive and time-consuming, and compromise is possible. ...more

GetMediation Bristol Advocates for More Workplace Mediation

Bristol, UK – GetMediation Bristol, in a website post, has echoed the importance of workplace mediation in Bristol and just anywhere else. ...more

Being Prepared For Mediation

Mediation is one of the aspects of litigation that can be confusing for parties in a lawsuit, but there are few rules to understand about the process that can make it a lot less daunting. ...more

Christina Haack and Ant Anstead to Attend Mediation in Custody Battle Over Son Hudson

Christina Haack and Ant Anstead’s custody battle continues. The TV stars, who share a 2-year-old son Hudson, have report ...more

Nonlawyers Can Make Good Mediators

A nonlawyer mediator can reason with counsel and parties about the weakness of arguments from a nonlegal perspective. ...more

Nonprofits, schools train teens to settle their own arguments in hopes of preventing gun violence

Barner has been participating in conflict resolution training through a nonprofit called YEAH Philly. ...more

Why I volunteer: Tommy Oakman on The Mediation Center

Becoming a volunteer community mediator was a personal goal for me and a best natural step to take toward helping people. ...more

Can medical negligence cases be resolved through mediation?

Litigation continues to be the major means by which medical negligence disputes are resolved in Ireland. While the dominant policy agenda focuses on the direct finan ...more

Dissent and Dialogue: The Role of Mediation in Nonviolent Uprisings

While both mediation and nonviolent resistance have been the subject of significant scholarly work, the connection of the two fields has received less atten ...more

Former MSU star Adreian Payne shot while unarmed, trying to mediate domestic dispute

Former Michigan State star Adreian Payne was shot and killed as he stood unarmed next to his car while trying ...more

Fed Up With a Noisy Neighbor? Try Mediation, Not Litigation

There's an old adage in the legal world — divorces are awful, but at least you don't have to live with the person anymore. But, if you sue your neighbor, it can get just as ugly as a divorce, but when it's all o ...more

Nigeria: Senate passes bill to enact Arbitration and Mediation Act, three others for concurrence

The Senate, on Tuesday, passed a Bill to enact the Arbitration and Mediation Act to provide for a unified ...more

NorthShore, Unvaccinated Staff Agree To Mediation In Vax Mandate Suit

NorthShore University HealthSystem and the group of employees who sued over its vaccine mandate agreed to mediation, court records show. ...more

Greitens' attorneys to decide on third-party mediator in custody case

Attorneys for former Missouri Governor and current U.S. Senate candidate Eric Greitens and h ...more

UK Continental Shelf oil and gas mediation pilot program extended

The North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) has extended the UKCS mediation pilot in order to gather further data to judge its overall value. ...more

Baltimore Community Mediation Center & The Ceasefire Weekend

The logo for this year's Mother's Day Ceasefire Weekend. The Baltimore Ceasefire movement is led by the same team of neighborhood activists who founded an ...more

The United States has supported successful mediation in 11 vicious conflicts since 1990: Could Ukraine make it an even dozen?

Up to now, the United States, along with ...more

Bar’s Grievance Mediation and Fee Arbitration Program Seeks Volunteers

The Florida Bar’s Grievance Mediation and Fee Arbitration Program is seeking new volunteers to serve in the program. ...more

Blue Cross, UMMC Agree To Mediation To Settle Contract Dispute

Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi and University of Mississippi Medical Center have agreed to utilize a mediation process to settle the co ...more

Consider Mediation Instead Of Going To Court

It’s less expensive and time-consuming, and compromise is possible. ...more

Mediation to begin in contract dispute between RI, gov candidate Ashley Kalus

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Republican gubernatorial candidate Ashley Kalus’s company is slated to begin closed-door mediation proceedings w ...more

Judge urges warring neighbours to consider mediation to avoid court battle

Dublin County Registrar Rita Considine and her next door neighbours, who are warring over alleged breaches of plan ...more

Violence interrupters' mediate conflict, help victims & priority neighborhoods

The trained group of 'violence interrupters' is part of 414 Life, a program with the Office of Violence Prevention ...more

Intercultural cities: good practice examples

The Intercultural city aims at building its policies and identity on the explicit acknowledgement that diversity can be a resource ...more

David and Goliath legal dispute over cauliflower thins settled after mediation

A year after cauliflower-fueled startup Outer Aisle Gourmet accused bakery giant Bimbo Bakeries USA of hardball ta ...more

Prince Harry wants to use a mediator to fix ‘difficult’ relationship with Prince William, royal expert claims

Royal author Katie Nicholl says the Duke of Sussex and the Duke of Cambridge are at 'a crossroads' ...more

Is Vaccinating your Children for COVID-19 an Emergency Parenting Decision?

Under most parenting plans, there is typically one situation that does not require a joint decision. To that end, most orders allow parents to make unilateral decisio ...more

Snyder: The Adjusters' and Lawyers' Remote Mediation Secret

COVID-19 changed our lives in oh-so-many ways. Courthouses and government buildings shut, and we were forced to suddenly embrace virtual platforms like Zoom, GoToMeeting, Web ...more

Old Yeller and the Case for The Great, Big Virtual Mediation

We have learned that two-dimensional, moving and talking images have the power to convey not only the words of human conversation, but also the emotions, inflections, mood, and othe ...more

Pickleball Parley: Denver DA suggests mediation between Parks Department and Central Park man accused of drawing pickleball markings on rec center court

President, Law Minister, CJI bat for mediation to check case pendency ...more

Early Mediation in Fiduciary Disputes

Denise Rahne sat down with former Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Eric Magnuson, whose experience as a practitioner, judge, and mediator provides him with a unique perspective on early mediation eff ...more

Restorative justice solutions for youth are growing abroad, can they become part of the mix in the U.S.

As schools have returned to in-person instruction, advocates for ...more

Gretchen Lee, Mountain Mediation Center, on DEI and Housing

Aligning Community Goals: DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) and Housing. ...more

Greitens attorney pushes back in family court case, asks for mediation

An attorney for former Missouri governor Eric Greitens asked a judge to order Greitens and his ex-wife to go through mediation to settle ...more

Mountain Mediation hosts a community conversation on the housing crisis and its impacts on equity

The Mountain Mediation Center is holding a bilingual community conversation titled “Le ...more

Right Resolution for Wrong Advances – Mediating Employment-Related Sexual Harassment & Discrimination Claims

As a result of recently passed landmark legislation, claimants and litigants can now expect to see a surge in the mediation of workplace sexual harassment and sexual discriminati ...more

Mediation service at Elon University raises awareness on student conflict services

Under the Office of Student Conduct at Elon, there is conflict coaching, facilitated dialogue, mediation, and restorative circle or ...more

Bankruptcy mediations begin for Archdiocese of Santa Fe

SANTA FE, N.M. – This week could be an important one for the hundreds of New Mexicans who were sexually assaulted by clergy in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. The church ...more

Gay man rejects mediation after filing support group complaint

Following weeks of back-and-forth discussions between a gay San Francisco man and the organizers of a support group for people living with HIV over the age of 50, he has decided against rejoining the group after being subj ...more

Adam Oakes' family hopeful mediation with suspect will bring answers

RICHMOND, Va. -- Andrew White, 23, was Oakes' "big brother" and pled guilty to unlawful hazing and purchasing alcohol for a minor. As part of his ple ...more

Gulf Coast: Class I’s, Port Seek Mediation. Amtrak Says ‘No’

Surface Transportation Board-sponsored mediation is the best means “to facilitate a prompt and orderly commencement of Gulf Coast passenger service while protecting the ...more

Community mediation aids social justice and peace in Syria’s war-torn Deir Ezzor

Since 2021, a number of activists and social actors, in cooperation with five civil society associations and organizations, namely Dirna, Furatna, Sama, Mary and Ensaf, have called for the for ...more

The good news about mediation

Settling a contract dispute with your roofer, dividing marital property in a divorce, settling insurance claims are all fair game for mediation. Whether court-referred or private, medi ...more

Bobsled, skeleton athletes send third letter rejecting "Band-Aid" mediation plan

Canadian bobsled and skeleton athletes remain steadfast in their refusal to accept their national sport organizatio ...more

Resolving Sexual Misconduct Disputes in the Workplace: What Now?

Now that the United States has banned the use of pre-dispute arbitration in sexual harassment and sexual assault cases, we need to re-evaluate how these kinds of cases are best resolved. Will we see a rise in cases making their ...more

Workplace Mediation Series | EP.04 | How to Set Up your Workplace Mediation

This podcast series on Workplace Mediation accompanies ‘CEDR’s Complete Guide to Workplace Mediation’ which can be accessed below. The series will convene leading ...more

Mediation is win-win option for civil disputes during pandemic

One option that has grown in popularity over the past decade or so is mediation, also known as facilitation. This process involves a neutral mediator who can ...more

My Job as a Family Mediator Is to Minimize the Fallout of Divorce.

Even with two great attorneys, it can be hard to settle things without that neutral person who hears from both sides that can help find resolutions that every ...more

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