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Jun. 10, 2009

Face Time Can Go a Long Way Toward Settling Legal Battles

Southern California seems to be at a very different place in the evolution of the use of mediation than the rest of the country, writes Mary Culbert.

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By Mary Culbert

A few weeks ago, at the Harvard Program on Negotiation's Mediation Pedagogy Conference, 150 mediators, trainers and professors from around the world got together to question their assumptions about mediation training. One thing that struck me most about the conference was that no one questioned what I would describe as two basic tenets of the mediation process. First, those involved in the conflict - meaning the partie...

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