Mediation

Posted on: Mon, 08/21/2023

The Problem

A class-action litigation against a major corporation with multiple restaurant franchises was de-certified, resulting in thousands of current and former employees ordered to pursue their claims for off-the-clock overtime and side work individually by mediation and/or arbitration. 

Posted on: Mon, 09/19/2022

"Purposeful Expectations" 

By: Harold Coleman, Jr., Esq., CCA, Senior Vice President, AAA-ICDR®; Executive Director/Mediation, AAA Mediation.org®

Posted on: Mon, 12/06/2021

Opening “Mindfully”: Counsel Considerations

By: Harold Coleman, Jr., Esq., CCA, Senior Vice President, AAA-ICDR®; Executive Director/Mediation, AAA Mediation.org® 

Mediation Mind Shifts are the critical, incremental shifts in thinking that must occur to

Posted on: Wed, 11/10/2021

Opening "Mindfully": Mediator Methods 

By Harold Coleman, Jr., Esq., CCA, Senior Vice President, AAA-ICDR®; Executive Director/Mediation, AAA Mediation.org® 

Mediation Mind Shifts are the critical, incremental shifts in thinking that must occur to move people embroiled in conflict from entrenched, diametrically opposed positions at the outset of mediation toward the goal of resolution at the end. 

These shifts transpire in the parties’ perspectives on the people involved, on the law applied, on the “