This new video just in from Mediate.com. No, it won’t inspire attorneys to mediate sooner than they already do nor drive any attorney to your mediation door. But it will introduce mediation to young people as a dispute resolution method that is in tune with the times – collaborative, reciprocal, fast, flat and flexible.
This is particularly timely for me as I sent my British law intern to the complex court to observe a status conference in an environmental coverage case that has been pending longer than she’s been alive!
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