Trends and Changes in Mediation
In the last few years, mediations have become harder to solve due to their complexities, economic pressure and the growing sophistication of lawyers. Disputes increasingly involve very technical issues, multiple parties or have a cross-border element. This means that they often take longer to complete and, indeed, many of our respondents report that the general expectation that a mediation takes one or two days has disappeared, to be replaced with the more realistic...