Watch a video of Special Master of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, Ken Feinberg, as he explains how he saw his task - a question of families ‘comparing values, payout times and probabilities; choosing between the sure thing of a Federal fund and the lottery ticket of a day in court’.
The Going Gets Tough: Some Top Mediators Discuss Hard Situations
US Mediators Michael Young and Vivien Shelanski discuss how mediations can be jeopardized or derailed by problematic behaviors that emerge without warning at the mediation session. In some instances, the problems could not have been anticipated. In other mediations, however, most problems are endemic to the type of dispute— that is, they may not be foreseeable but they aren’t particularly surprising…
