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What Mediation can And Cannot Do - Chapter 6 - AAA Handbook on Mediation - Third Edition

Author(s): 
Ira B. Lobel
Page Count: 
8 pages
Published: 
April, 2016
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Ira B. Lobel has a private practice exclusively devoted to mediation and arbitration. He is a Member of the National Academy of Arbitrators and the Association for Conflict Resolution.  He was a Commissioner of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service from 1974 until 2003.  Lobel received a B.S. from Cornell University and a J.D. from Catholic University. He is the author numerous articles on alternative dispute resolution.  He can be contacted at iralobel@gmail.com.

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AAA Handbook on Mediation - Third Edition

WHAT MEDIATION CAN AND CANNOT DO

Ira B. Lobel

I. Introduction

A school district has had several budget defeats and the teachers’ union continues to complain that the wage offer is not sufficient. A strike appears imminent.

A husband and wife are having a particularly nasty divorce. Each accuses the other of all sorts of crimes, including kidnapping the children. The differences between the spouses continue and the children are caught in between.

A government agency has published a new regulation on a technical scientific matter. Affected parties immediately start complaining that the regulation is ill-conceived and technically inaccurate. Lawsuits against the proposed regulation are certain.

A tenant keeps complaining about the heat in his apartment. The landlord basically tells the tenant to get lost. Fisticuffs follow and the matter is brought before the local magistrate.

A multimillion-dollar civil matter has been filed in the courts. After years of discovery, pre-trial motions and depositions before trial, the parties realize that the main beneficiaries of the litigation will be the lawyers.