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Alternative Dispute Resolution

Oct. 21, 2006

Take Steps to Ensure Mediated Settlements Can Be Enforced

FOCUS COLUMN - By Deborah Rothman and Victoria Pynchon - Ladies and gentlemen, start your word processors.


Focus Column

By Deborah Rothman and Victoria Pynchon

     
      Ladies and gentlemen, start your word processors. Simmons v. Ghaderi, 2006 DJDAR 13065 (Sept. 29), may well have you revising your settlement documents before your next mediation. In Simmons, a majority of the 2nd District Court of Appeal enforced a mediated oral settlement agreement that did not comply with Eviden...

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