AI & Trial Changes Boost ADR Need
By Donald G. Korman Florida Supreme Court Certified Circuit Civil Mediator Florida Supreme Court Qualified Arbitrator In the not-too-distant future, once AI overcomes its tendency for hallucination and inventing cases, every lawyer will have comprehensive access to all relevant case law and law review articles for their claims. Lawyers will tell...
Should Arbitration Proceed Mediation in a Hybrid Mediation / Arbitration?
By Donald G. Korman Florida Supreme Court Certified Circuit Civil Mediator Florida Supreme Court Qualified Arbitrator One of the great strengths of mediation is confidentiality. As we tell the participants at the outset, “what is said in mediation stays in mediation.” We often remind them of the consequences of disclosing...
Beyond Zoom: The Value of In-Person Mediations
By Donald G. Korman Florida Supreme Court Certified Circuit Civil Mediator Florida Supreme Court Qualified Arbitrator There are now very few in-person mediations. Online mediations are far more efficient than in-person mediations. Participants can be and often are in different cities or even different countries. There are no transportation, food...
Mediation / Arbitration – New Option for Alternative Dispute Resolution
By: Donald G Korman Florida Supreme Court Certified Circuit Civil Mediator Florida Supreme Court Qualified Arbitrator Court dockets are presently jammed owing to the Pandemic delaying and preventing trials and the pent-up demand now that in-person trials have resumed. Further stressing the system, the Florida State Supreme Court is demanding that...
How Mediators Can Help you with a Difficult Client
By: Donald G. Korman Florida Supreme Court Certified Circuit Civil Mediator Clients sometimes come to mediation with unreasonable expectations. They question their attorney’s valuation of their claim, either assuming the attorney is anxious to settle rather than try the case or having fallen so in love with their own case they...
The Stockholm Syndrome and Mediation
By: Donald G. Korman Florida Supreme Court Certified Circuit Civil Mediator Stockholm Syndrome: feelings of trust or affection that are felt in many cases of kidnapping or hostage taking by a victim toward their captor. The term “Stockholm Syndrome” was first used when in 1973 during a failed bank robbery...