Mediation Standards Lack Uniformity In Federal Bankruptcy

December 12, 2019

Melanie L. Cyganowski, chair of the firm's insolvency department and a mediator and arbitrator with FedArb, writes about how the in the absence of a single definition of good faith in court-annexed mediation in the federal courts, and no one standard governing mediation sanctions, mediation-related sanctions are a mix of precedent, local rules, mediation orders and sometimes Civil Rule 16 in her article that appears in Law360 and can be found here.