It Ain't Over Till It's Over: Fashioning Durable Settlements

摘要

It's 7:00 p.m., and after a long hard mediation, the case has settled. The plaintiff prepares to move on with his life. The defendant's representatives, the lawyers, and the mediator promptly turn to their next task.rnAnd everyone breathes a sigh of relief-perhaps too soon.rnIn employment mediation practice, instead of being the beginning of the end, the handshake agreement often merely signals the end of the beginning.rnInformal resolution too frequently serves only as arnprelude to quarrels over what exactly was agreed to, delays in delivery or signature of the formal documents, pitched battles over boilerplate language, and neglect by the company to follow up with punctual payments.