Focus (Forum & Focus)
Sep. 16, 2008
Joint Mediation Can Help Reconcile Those Torn Apart by Litigation
Joint mediation sessions allow parties to collaborate to resolve the problem they share — the litigation itself — without the bad taste of coercion in their mouths, writes Victoria Pynchon. - Forum Column
FORUM COLUMN
By Victoria Pynchon When I look in my backyard and see a pepper tree, what I perceive is only 10 percent perception and 90 percent memory. According to writer and surgeon Atul Gawande in his recent New Yorker article "The Itch," everything we see is subjectively reconstructed from the barest amount of actual data. "Given simply the transmissions along the optic nerve from the light entering the eye," he writes, "one would ...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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