Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

This is a guest post by my colleague Ekaterina Ricci, a mediator with a Master's in Dispute Resolution and a Master's in Legal Studies. Your roommate’s been eating your food. Your boss has been ...

A common definition of mediation is a process with an impartial neutral who assists the parties in resolving a dispute. In most civil litigation mediations, the goal is a final settlement agreement.

Mediation is an effort by a third party to encourage parties to a dispute to voluntarily reach an agreement to resolve their dispute. 2. Types of Mediation There are currently four types of mediation ...

Dispute resolution clauses have become common features of many agreements. In-house counsel and transactional lawyers routinely draft provisions governing how disputes will be resolved if they arise.

Your roommate’s been eating your food. Your boss has been ignoring your emails. Your neighbor’s music shakes your walls at 2 a.m. You’ve tried talking, but it spirals into the same script every time: ...