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Perspective

May 31, 2014

A few things about mediation and 'nondisclosure'

Confidentiality is not the same thing as nondisclosure. By Lawrence Peitzman


By Lawrence Peitzman


Mediation of legal disputes is so flexible and so informal and, at this point, so commonplace a process that it is easy to assume that every lawyer knows everything he or she needs to know about mediation. You show up. You negotiate. You make a deal - or you don't. And, one way or the other, it's all "confidential." What more could you need to know? How complicated can it be? After all, in California, you don't even need...

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