The Use of Mediation in China
While mediation of disputes remains a sought after but often not achieved goal in the United States, mediation is far more commonly used and more successful in resolving disputes in China. There would appear to be a multitude of reasons why mediation has been so much more successful in China than it has in the United States. A number of those reasons seem to be inherent in Chinese culture and not readily transferable to other cultures and nations including our own. Yet, there may be a number of aspects of China's successful use of mediation that may be of use in our own country's pursuit of mediation as an essential element of alternative dispute resolution.

Mediation to Resolve Divorce Disputes
WHAT IS MEDIATION

Liquidated Damages & Arbitration/Mediation Clauses
In many purchase contracts today there are two special clauses that must be initialed individually to be included in the contract. If both the buyer and seller do not initial the clauses they are not part of the contract.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Mediation
Mediation is older than any legal system. The great Bacon wrote the praises of mediation nearly four hundred years ago, in one of his celebrated Essays:"It is generally better to deal by speech than by letter, and by the mediation of a third, than by a man's self .