Sarasota Partner Steven Chase presented a seminar entitled "Evaluative-Qualitative Mediation as an Alternative to Traditional Mediation" to the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) section of the Sarasota County Bar Association.
The seminar included several topics:
- Understanding the role of a mediator
- How evaluative-qualitative mediation differs from traditional mediation
- Ethical limitations as to evaluative-qualitative mediation
- The rise of neutral evaluators
- So-called good faith requirement to mediation
- Recent changes to Florida Rules of Civil Procedure concerning mediation
- Recent mediator ethics advisory committee opinions (MEAC)