Mediation Ethics: A Practitioner's Guide

By Omer Shapira

This book takes a practical, concise, and coherent approach to mediation ethics to make lawyer-mediators aware of their ethical obligations while serving as mediators. The book has been written by 15 leading mediation scholars, with special expertise in mediation ethics, each contributing a chapter on a topic within his or her expertise.

Topics covered include:

Theory of mediators' ethics, Contrasting lawyer ethics and mediator ethics, Codes of Conduct for mediators and MEAC opinions, Accepting a case or refusing to mediate, Evaluating ethically, Separate meetings, Mediator proposals, Difficult parties, Lawyer representation in mediation, Med-arb, The mediated agreement, Mediators as witnesses, Mediator discipline, And continuing mediation ethics education.

Contributors include Omer Shapira, James Alfini, Susan Nauss Exon, Ellen Waldman, Donna Erez-Navot, Kristen M. Blankley, Elayne E. Greenberg, Sharon Press, Bill Eddy, Jacqueline Nolan-Haley, Nancy A. Welsh, Fran Tetunic, Ellen E. Deason, Michael Moffitt, and Gregory Firestone.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1641059117
• ISBN13: 9781641059114
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: American Bar Association
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"