What are the benefits of an e-Mediation?
E-Mediation has multiple benefits to the litigants and the court. For examples, e-Mediation helps the parties
- self-direct workable solutions,
- define scope parameters,
- determine relevancy
- determine form(s) of production,
- develop mutually acceptable search methodologies,
- create timelines for production or “e-depositions,”
- propose confidential compromises,
- create efficiencies with a mutual discovery plan,
- set guidelines for asserting violations of the plan (non-waiver agreements),
- create boundaries for reasonable and proportional preservation,
- avoid spoliation pitfalls,
- manage protection of privileged information,
- maintain credibility with the court,
- avoid court-imposed sanctions, and
- allocate costs.