1. last accessed on March 30, 2014 at www.consensusdocs.org/News/ Download/f900a7b8-6d91-4175-8e7c-a22900e56675?name=Lurie%20Article.pdf. That is not surprising in light of the apparent lack of mediator follow-up after settlement conferences (in spite of evidence that continuing mediator attention to an impassed case is regarded by counsel as useful;P Lurie;Jour. of the ACCL,2012
2. Mediation has been mandatory in North Carolina for most civil cases in federal court and Superior Court for the better part of two decades. See generally, Alternative Dispute Resolution in North Carolina: A New Civil Procedure (Second Edition) (N.C. Bar Ass'n Dispute Resolution Section, 2012) This body of experience enjoyed by both bench and bar has put North Carolina in the forefront of alternative dispute resolution and marks its experience as especially;References in this essay to North Carolina law will hopefully prove useful for situations in other jurisdictions,2009
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