Videos of Mediation and other Alternative Dispute Resolution

The American Bar Ass'n/Suffolk University Law School Video Center shows how mediation and other ADR techniques can be used to resolve a wide range of disputes. Teachers of ADR may download videos and roleplays at no charge for use in their classes.

Mediation Progress in the Hallway

A mediation's progress toward settlement can occur not only in joint caucus of all participants (parties and lawyers) or by the mediator shuttling between separate rooms, but also in the hallway between rooms.  As Geoff Sharp aptly writes, such "corridor encounters often appear to be accidental", "typically occur en route to the loo/kitchen/for a smoke/to make a phone call", and "have a hushed ‘in passing’ tone about them."

Geoff Sharp insightfully adds "Cut through/bottom line mediation language is expected and such encounters often determine what happens next in the process and, to that extent, have a coaching element to them aimed at choreographing a forthcoming exchange."