Judicial Survey Questions

DlC Q35: If you have any particular practices or preferences in regard to conducting a mediation, please describe them here.

DLC A35: I begin the mediation with all present and ask everyone to introduce themselves. After explaining how the session will proceed, and before moving on to the individual caucuses, I invite counsel, if they wish, to make introductory, nonargumentative comments. Counsel sometimes find this opportunity to be helpful to set a positive tone at the outset, especially where the parties have not spoken for some time.

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* Cabell, Donald L.

United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts