Virtual Mediation: Key Issues and Considerations | Practical Law

Virtual Mediation: Key Issues and Considerations | Practical Law

A Practice Note explaining the principal issues, benefits, and concerns in holding a mediation using a video teleconferencing platform (VTC), including various practical, technical, and strategic considerations.

Virtual Mediation: Key Issues and Considerations

Practical Law Practice Note w-025-9079 (Approx. 13 pages)

Virtual Mediation: Key Issues and Considerations

by Theo Cheng, ADR Office of Theo Cheng LLC, with Practical Law Litigation
MaintainedUSA (National/Federal)
A Practice Note explaining the principal issues, benefits, and concerns in holding a mediation using a video teleconferencing platform (VTC), including various practical, technical, and strategic considerations.
This document may be particularly relevant in light of the extreme limits on in-person meetings during the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis but may be adapted for other situations in which some or all mediation participants appear remotely.