"The Zoom boxes are a great equalizer. We have noticed that clients are taking a more active role in virtual mediations, perhaps due, at least in part, to the more equal way in which participants ...

For years, lawyers took it as an article of faith: "Nothing settles until the eve of trial." Young lawyers were told, "Cases always settle on the courthouse steps." And then COVID-19 hit, and on March ...

In 2000, I was involved in trying to develop a system for online mediation. The broadband infrastructure to support such a system did not exist, so we were 20 years early. It took the COVID-19 ...

Perhaps one of the few silver linings of this crisis is that it is occurring in an era of readily available virtual communication, through Zoom and similar technologies. This article discusses ...

Before the coronavirus pandemic began, Sue Wasserkrug, a program administrator at the Good Shepherd Mediation Program, mediated a conflict involving a tenant and a landlord. The tenant’s unit needed ...

Hawaii Island’s two nonprofit mediation centers have teamed up to continue free Zoom mediation for landlords and tenants now that landlords are no longer required to send a 15-day eviction notice. The ...

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