Name
#5: Remote Mediation: Before, During and After the Pandemic
Time
3:00 PM - 3:50 PM
Description

Remote mediation began as a means to provide access to justice for those living in remote locations and for people facing difficulties accessing the mediator’s office, but the pandemic has launched it into a main method for the delivery of mediation for a large variety of cases and parties throughout the state. Now, both practitioners, clients, and courts understand and embrace the benefits of remotely delivering mediation services as it is more efficient, provides opportunities for breakout sessions, co-creation of MOUs, addresses the current lack of room space in physical courthouses, and often decreases anxiety of parties. Technological tools to help parties resolve disputes are playing an increasingly more important role in court cases and mediators need to learn the choreography of online dispute resolution and communication.