Civil Litigation,
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Oct. 20, 2017
The Arc of Mediation
Mediations -- successful ones anyway -- follow an "arc," or script of their own, and an understanding of the "mediation arc" is necessary for success in the mediation itself, and for the participants in it to preserve their equilibrium.
Douglas G. Carnahan
Mediator
Alternative Resolution Centers, LLC
Douglas is a retired Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner. He is an adjunct instructor at the UCLA School of Law, and in the paralegal training programs of UCLA and the El Camino Community College.
We are well familiar with the normal "script" of a civil trial.
Motions in limine followed by jury selection followed by opening statements followed by witnesses, on through verdict and post-verdict motions.
There is a vague feeling in the lay public -- and even among some lawyers -- that mediations are the reverse of this -- that a mediation is a sort of free-flowing gabfest, perhaps overlaid with ...
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