Last weekend, I attended a conference of fellow mediators. One of the points raised was that mediating via Zoom, or any other video-conference platform requires a different skill set and for those new mediators (of less than three years) , it may be the only skill set they know. That [Read More]
A recent survey ( NADN-2022-SurveyOfLitigators-ViewsOnODR[64656] ) conducted by the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals found that prior to the pandemic and lock down in March 2020 only about 2% of litigation attorneys had ever attended a mediation or arbitration using a video conference platform. But thanks to the pandemic, as [Read More]
For the past three years, many of us have been living on Zoom or a similar video conference platform. And no doubt, many times our attention and minds have wondered, and we find ourselves looking at emails, texts, social media feeds or playing games on our phones when we should [Read More]
On days that I had a mediation prior to Covid 19, I would dress the part. I would wear a pantsuit with very comfortable shoes for all the walking that I would end up doing by going back and forth between the different conference rooms. Now, during the pandemic, all [Read More]
It has been about 4 months or so since the Covid 19 crisis started mandating that we all stay home or close to it, wear masks and wash our hands a lot. Consequently, many of us are now working from home and using Zoom meetings in the place of in [Read More]
