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.