Mediation Advocacy

Contents Include:

• The role of the advocate in mediationNew in the second edition
• The decision to mediate
• Choosing a mediator
• The pre-mediation process
• The mediation hearing
• Mediation privilege and confidentiality new in the second edition
• Costs issues
• Making a market in mediation new in the second edition
• Appendices
• Select List of Mediation Service Providers
• Examples of Standard Form Mediation Agreements

The author of this highly successful and well-regarded work is a practising barrister and teacher of advocacy, mediation and other key legal skills. In the second edition, many other leading practitioners have also contributed, to produce a book of real authority. As a guide to one of the key professional skills, this book is an invaluable reference for legal professionals in training, and for more experienced practitioners who are seeking to enhance their expertise in this field. It will also be of interest to those in the business and commercial sectors who are involved in mediation themselves or who engage the services of a mediation advocate.

New in this edition:

• Role of the Advocate in Mediation
• Privilege and Confidentiality
• Making a Market in Mediation

Reviews

"The advocacy skills necessary in a mediation are quite different from those required for the (usually civilised) battle that takes place in a courtroom. That is why Mediation Advocacy is such a valuable book. It gives a great deal of very useful advice as to how to prepare for and conduct a mediation from beginning to end. It is an intensely practical book. It will be of great benefit to all those who conduct litigation." Lord Dyson, Justice of the Supreme Court

About the Author

Andrew Goodman has been a barrister since 1978 and an accredited CEDR mediator since 1992 practicing from chambers at 1 Chancery Lane, London in commercial, construction, partnership, franchising, professional negligence and farming disputes. He has been recommended as a leading junior in professional indemnity work and in ADR in the Legal 500 for over 15 years. He is currently Professor of Conflict Management and Dispute Resolution Studies at Rushmore University, is a visiting lecturer on the LLM/LLB Dispute Resolution programme at University College, London, and the School of Oriental and African Studies. He is also undertaking doctoral research in mediation dynamics at Birkbeck College, University of London. In November, 2007 Andrew helped launch the Standing Conference of Mediation Advocates of which he is Convenor.