Litigation
Cal. Litig. 2014, Volume 27, Number 2
Content
- New Lawyer Column: Motion Buffet
- Riverisland: Inordinate Burdens or Leveling the Playing Field
- McDermott on Demand: Horsing Around
- Mum's the Word: Why Saying Too Much May Invalidate a Contract
- Litigation Section Executive Committee Past Chairs
- Editor's Foreword This Award-Winning Publication (?)
- Past Editors-in-Chief
- Table of Contents
- From the Section Chair
- Masthead
- From the Section Chair
- Masthead
- Table of Contents
- McDermott on Demand: Horsing Around
- Editor's Foreword This Award-Winning Publication (?)
- Litigation Section Executive Committee Past Chairs
- Mum's the Word: Why Saying Too Much May Invalidate a Contract
- Past Editors-in-Chief
- Riverisland: Inordinate Burdens or Leveling the Playing Field
- New Lawyer Column: Motion Buffet
- Sargon Enterprises v. Usc-a Different Perspective
- The Inelegant Art of Scorched Earth Discovery
- Fighting Procrastination in Legal Practice: Defining and Finding Your Role in the Cycle
- California Attorney Fee Orders: When to Appeal, Defend or Settle
- Mediation Research: What Really Works?
- Adr Update - the Pre-Mediation Conference: An Underused Step Toward Resolution
- Adr Update - the Pre-Mediation Conference: An Underused Step Toward Resolution
- Mediation Research: What Really Works?
- California Attorney Fee Orders: When to Appeal, Defend or Settle
- Fighting Procrastination in Legal Practice: Defining and Finding Your Role in the Cycle
- The Inelegant Art of Scorched Earth Discovery
- Sargon Enterprises v. Usc-a Different Perspective
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.