Litigation
Cal. Litig. 2014, Volume 27, Number 2
Content
- McDermott on Demand: Horsing Around
- Mediation Research: What Really Works?
- Litigation Section Executive Committee Past Chairs
- Past Editors-in-Chief
- From the Section Chair
- Table of Contents
- Riverisland: Inordinate Burdens or Leveling the Playing Field
- Mum's the Word: Why Saying Too Much May Invalidate a Contract
- The Inelegant Art of Scorched Earth Discovery
- New Lawyer Column: Motion Buffet
- Adr Update - the Pre-Mediation Conference: An Underused Step Toward Resolution
- Fighting Procrastination in Legal Practice: Defining and Finding Your Role in the Cycle
- Masthead
- California Attorney Fee Orders: When to Appeal, Defend or Settle
- Sargon Enterprises v. Usc-a Different Perspective
- Editor's Foreword This Award-Winning Publication (?)
Mediation Research: What Really Works?
By Gary Weiner
Attorneys have been taking their clients to mediation for years now. Many cases settle and a lot don’t. Lawyers and mediators have all kinds of ideas about what works and some can even give you a theory about why. Lawyers have a whole host of ideas about why to choose one mediator or another. Mediators have ideas about what they do and why it works when it does.
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But, do we really know? Surprisingly, we don’t really have much good empirical information on what really works. Some new research seems to say that even mediators don’t really know what it is they actually do when they mediate.