LIVE WEBCAST
Guess What – Your Online Mediation May Not Be Confidential
Thursday, February 4, 2021 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Program Fee:
$99 for Members | $199 for Nonmembers
Small Law Firm: $59 for Members
Members who are Law Students, Recent Law Graduates, Newly Admitted Lawyers (admitted for the first time in any state or country 2019-2021), In-House/Corporate Counsel, Judges, or attorneys that practice within the Government, Academic or Not-for-Profit sectors attend this program for free.
CLE Credit:
New York: 1.0 Professional Practice
New Jersey: 1.0 General
California: 1.0 General
Pennsylvania: 1.0 General
Connecticut: Available to Licensed Attorneys
This program provides transitional/non-transitional credit to all attorneys
Description:
This program will explain how choice-of-law rules apply to mediation privilege and confidentiality issues; the malpractice risks lawyers and mediators take when they promise mediation confidentiality; the risks of waiving contract-based defenses to mediated settlement agreements; and the dangers of signing a mediation confidentiality agreement with a liability waiver in favor of the mediator. Three key benefits: How to advise clients regarding whether to sign a mediator's confidentiality agreement; How to advise clients regarding how candid to be in a mediation; How to minimize malpractice risks in mediation.
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Program Instructor:
Jeff Kichaven, Principal Mediator, Jeff Kichaven Commercial Mediation
Sponsoring Association Committee:
Alternative Dispute Resolution, Charles M. Newman, Chair