Wed 03 Mar 2021
Dealing with Obstacles to Mediation
In this fourth podcast from our series on how to best represent your client at mediation, David Hossack and Laura McKenna explore some of the obstacles that lawyers might face when suggesting mediation and how to overcome them.
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