Last month RSI’s Heather Scheiwe Kulp blogged about the need for courts to find creative solutions to the problems of increasing caseloads, increasing numbers of self-represented litigants and dwindling resources to handle it all. As if in answer, an article showed up in RSI inboxes last week that addressed these very issues. (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘mediation’
Combining Mediation and Unbundled Legal Services
Just Court ADR, July 5th, 2011Uniform Mediation Act – Ten Years Later
Susan M. Yates, July 1st, 2011The JAMS Dispute Resolution Alert has a good article by Justin Kelly about the ten-year anniversary of the Uniform Mediation Act. Having participated in some of the deliberations during the drafting of the Act, I have been interested to see how it has been implemented.
One thing that stands out to me, even after ten years, is the lack of clarity among mediators, lawyers and the mediating public about exactly what the Act provides in terms of confidentiality. Many see the UMA as providing confidentiality of all mediation communications. In fact, what it provides is much narrower than that. (more…)
The Bread and Butter of Non-Judicial Foreclosure Mediation
Just Court ADR, June 22nd, 2011Here at the Just Court ADR blog, we focus on just that – court-connected alternative dispute resolution. But occasionally, a dispute resolution system becomes so popular that it grows beyond the walls of the courthouse and replicates itself, like good yeast, into new shapes.
The latest ADR bread to rise outside the judiciary (more…)
In Illinois, Two New Foreclosure Mediation Programs
Just Court ADR, April 27th, 2011Proof that foreclosure mediation can be applied in a variety of settings: the Illinois Supreme Court recently approved local court rules for foreclosure mediation programs to begin in Peoria County, Illinois, and Madison County, Illinois.
Peoria County in central Illinois has a population of 182,495. With 900 foreclosures last year, Peoria has already had 180 foreclosures filed this year. The Peoria program follows (more…)
