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Committee on Mediation

David C. Singer Co-Chair

Irene C. Warshauer Co-Chair

The Mediation Committee hopes to become a valuable resource for New York practitioners and consumers of mediation.   The Committee will seek to promote the use of mediation, to present programs on topics of interest to mediators and advocates, to provide a forum to debate policy issues important to the profession, and to take positions on such issues when it is appropriate to do so.

The Mediation Committee has been very active over this past year and has several exciting projects in the pipeline for 2010-2011.   The Committee’s report on mediator quality – the result of a year-long study of past and current thinking on the topic – was enthusiastically adopted by the Section in May of 2010.   The committee also undertook an ambitious survey of New York litigators to learn their views on mediation; the results have been tabulated will be presented for review.

Another project now well underway is a mentor-mentee matchmaking service, which we expect to work smoothly and simply to give fledgling mediators opportunities to learn from their more experienced colleagues.  

In addition to these ventures, we’ve invited leading practitioners in the field to our bi-monthly meetings to facilitate discussions of best practices and practice development, including fee issues, mediators’ proposals, settlement agreements, moving past impasse and risk analysis.  This is a continuing feature at our committee meetings.

As mediation is a dispute resolution tool that is of great benefit in many substantive areas of the law, a series of papers on the benefits of mediation in many fields of law were  being prepared to educate practitioners about how mediation might benefit their clients and how it might be of particular applicability in specific fields of law.

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