Three's A Crowd-how To Resolve A Knotty Multi-party Dispute Through Mediation

摘要

The most difficult negotiating situation business lawyers face is trying to settle a multiparty dispute, especially when some facet of the resolution calls for making a forward-looking deal. The premise of this article is that mediation offers the best hope of crafting a compromise outcome reasonably satisfactory to all parties that terminates all litigation. The author offers readers an in-depth inside look at how a mediator goes about this task, in the context of a knotty hypothetical four-sided dispute. The article focuses on the skills and techniques required of both the mediator and the party representatives involved.