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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ADR Services, Inc.
Email: rmann@adrservices.com
Robert mediates and arbitrates business, real estate and construction disputes.
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...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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