Are Legal Disputes Just About Money? Answers from Mediators on the Front Line
Birgit Sambeth
October 2017
with Hal Abramson, Bill Marsh, Bennett G. Picker, Jerry Weiss, in: Alternatives to the high cost of litigation, Vol. 35 No. 9 October 2017
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Are most disputes in mediation just about money? That’s an old and familiar question that many lawyers still seem to reply to with an emphatic “yes.” Mediated cases are frequently viewed as a clash of binary claims, subject only to a sorting out of financial winners and losers. (...)