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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Feb. 14, 2008

Disclosure Prevention

Focus Column - By Michael Paul Thomas - The issue of whether a party may be estopped from asserting mediation confidentiality in appropriate circumstances remains an open one.

FOCUS COLUMN

By Michael Paul Thomas
This article appears on Page 7.

      California has long had a strong policy favoring mediation as a simple, quick and economical alternative to litigation.
      Recognizing that a successful mediation requires a candid exchange of views and information and that such an exchange is achieved only if the participants know that what is said in the mediation will ...

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