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.