Mediations are negotiations – and in negotiations, drawing lines is sometimes the final step. (More often, it is an almost final step.) But what happens if you draw a line, and the other side crosses it? Well, if you let …

Often, parties who are somewhat peripheral to a dispute in litigation learn of a mediation among the actual parties. They may be invited to it or just clued in by serendipity. However it happens, they should be considering the question, …