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At every stage in conflict resolution, parties face an array of choices, but they don’t always recognize them.
Can we offer the opposing party more ways to get to an acceptable conclusion? Think of ways to enhance the proposed monetary

All successful mediations are alike; each unsuccessful mediation is unsuccessful in its own way.
OK, maybe you are more familiar with the actual first sentence of Leo Tolstoy’s 1878 novel Anna Karenina:
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family

Despite a continuing plea for civility from pretty much every professional quarter, many parties come to mediation with a Rambo mentality. Keeping certain ethical guideposts in mind is a better way to efficiently settle.
Honesty
California lawyers are bound by