Some Thoughts on Post-Covid Virtual and In-Person Mediation: A Virtual, Inter-active Discussion with Malcolm

A Discussion and Ethical considerations in our post-Covid environment. Including:

• Will we ever be back to “normal,” whatever that means?
• How did COVID impact our mediation practices?
• Working with insurers and other third-party stakeholders in “virtual” mediations.
• Ethical and other challenges dealing with C.A.R. and other contractual mediations.
• Preserving confidentiality and privacy in “virtual” and “hybrid” mediations.
• Ethical considerations in “virtual” mediations with non-represented parties.
• Is “free time” for court-sponsored mediations excessive? Mediators needs to eat, too!
• Re-working Agreements to Mediate to provide for “virtual” and “hybrid” mediations.