Pepperdine University School of Law’s Tom Stipanowich and Karinya Verghese have recently published a well researched article exposing fascinating regional differences in mediation practice which include regional divergence such as the relative use or non-use of joint sessions; how mediators handle information received from parties in caucus and mediator evaluation and opinion giving.
The article is a revised and expanded version of lectures delivered by Tom as the New Zealand Law Foundation’s International Dispute Resolution Visiting Scholar. The full text is at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2712457