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Alternative Dispute Resolution

Sep. 12, 2015

Mediation is a tale of two unlikely stories

The mediation process often requires each party's original "story" to be extensively rewritten.

Robert S. Mann

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Email: rmann@adrservices.com

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The dictionary defines "palimpsest" as "a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for a later writing but of which traces remain." It might equally be a definition of the mediation process, especially because so often the settlement of a case requires the original "story" to be extensively rewritten.

To illustrate this, let's take a hypothetical, but quite typical, example o...

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