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Perspective

Jul. 14, 2012

Essential terms to protect a mediation settlement

Before everyone runs for the door, the most important task of the day remains: documenting the settlement. By Robert Mann of ADR Services


By Robert Mann


Everyone has worked hard all day, the mediator has worked some magic and there's a settlement. Let's all shake hands and go home, or maybe out for a drink. But wait - before everyone runs for the door, the most important task of the day remains: documenting the settlement. Nothing is worse than working hard to settle a case only to find, to use one of my favorite expressions, that it blows up like a poisoned dog because there's no enfor...

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