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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Oct. 13, 2007

Silencing Liability

ADR Column - By Max Factor III - California's standards for what kinds of information can and cannot be kept confidential after being revealed at mediation may surprise you.

ADR COLUMN

By Max Factor III

      It was seven hours into a heated mediation between two businessmen, each of whom were prepared to engage in a self-destructive dissolution of their construction company.
      "I just don't get it!" the majority partner said. "The federal tax returns and audited financials clearly show the proposed buy-out of your 35 percent share is more than equitable. And, af...

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