This book takes a practical, concise, and coherent approach to mediation ethics to make lawyer-mediators aware of their ethical obligations while serving as mediators. The book has been written by 15 leading mediation scholars, with special expertise in mediation ethics, each contributing a chapter on a topic within his or her expertise.
Topics covered include:
- Theory of mediators' ethics,
- Contrasting lawyer ethics and mediator ethics,
- Codes of Conduct for mediators and MEAC opinions,
- Accepting a case or refusing to mediate,
- Evaluating ethically,
- Separate meetings,
- Mediator proposals,
- Difficult parties,
- Lawyer representation in mediation,
- Med-arb,
- The mediated agreement,
- Mediators as witnesses,
- Mediator discipline,
- And continuing mediation ethics education.
Contributors include Omer Shapira, James Alfini, Susan Nauss Exon, Ellen Waldman, Donna Erez-Navot, Kristen M. Blankley, Elayne E. Greenberg, Sharon Press, Bill Eddy, Jacqueline Nolan-Haley, Nancy A. Welsh, Fran Tetunic, Ellen E. Deason, Michael Moffitt, and Gregory Firestone.