With most of the country on stay at home orders of some variety and court closings, parties to claims, litigation, and arbitrations are adapting quickly to virtual litigation activities that are customarily done in person. This includes virtual depositions, mediations, arbitrations, and trials.
In this post, I will talk about virtual mediations.
Contractual mediation is a requirement in many construction contracts to proceeding forward with litigation/arbitration. There is often a period of time in which the mediation should be concluded before a party may proceed to the next step of dispute resolution.
No matter the parties to the case, it is customary for parties, their counsel, experts, and insurance representatives to meet in-person at the mediator’s office, one of the law firms, or some neutral location like JAMS and/or AAA’s offices. The physical presence is an advantage in that it gets parties and their counsel together at the same place with one objective in mind — settle
