Mediation Ethics: A Practitioner's Guide

Mediation Ethics is aimed at lawyer-mediators who care about their clients, professions, and the general public and want to conduct mediations ethically. It takes a practical, concise, and coherent approach to mediation ethics to make lawyer-mediators aware of their ethical obligations while serving as mediators. Written by 15 leading mediation scholars, with special expertise in mediation ethics, each scholar contributes a chapter on a topic within his or her expertise. Each chapter provides a careful examination of a topic related to the practice of mediation and suggests ethical guidelines grounded in ethical theory, codes of conduct for mediators, and mediator ethics advisory committees' (MEAC) opinions. This book differs from and may supplement other available full length books that cover mediation ethics. It focuses on specific ethical issues that arise in the mediation practice of lawyer-mediators. It addresses these issues in a developing order, from the beginning of the mediation to its end, enabling mediators to consult the topic relevant to them at any given point in time. It then provides concise ethical guidance through a diversified yet reasoned ethical approach grounded in ethical theory, codes of conduct for mediators, and ethics advisory opinions. The book's primary audience is lawyer-mediators and mediators in general. It would also be useful to lawyers representing clients in mediation, administrative staff and mediators in ADR court programs, scholars and students in ADR academic programs, and mediator trainees and trainers.