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Responding when the other side doesn't have settlement authority

✍ Scribed by Jeffrey Krivis


Publisher
Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
Year
1999
Weight
442 KB
Volume
17
Category
Article
ISSN
1549-4373

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✦ Synopsis


Kansas City, Mo., attorney Carl H. Helmstetter, a partner a t Spencer Fane Britt & Browne, investigates one of ADR practice's major growth concerns: Can lawyers violate laws or ethics rules if they evaluate a case when they are acting as a mediator? MEDIATION TECHNIQUES ... Page 125 Storming out of a mediation session may be an acceptable way to deal with an adversary who doesn't have the authority to accept a deal. Los Angeles mediator Jeffrey Kn'vis offers other more productive techniques for dealing with "lack of authority.