Compare 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.