Mediation Ethics A Practitioner s Guide

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.