Perceptions in Litigation and Mediation: Lawyers, Defendants, Plaintiffs, and Gendered Parties

ISBN: 9780521280549 出版年：2009 页码：303 Tamara Relis Cambridge University Press

1. Introduction 2. Great misconceptions or disparate perceptions of plaintiffs' litigation aims? 3. Voluntary versus mandatory mediation divide 4. Consequences of power: legal actors versus disputants on defendants' attendance at mediation 5. Actors' mediation objectives: how lawyers versus parties plan to resolve their cases short of trial 6. Actors' divergent perceptions of what goes on during mediation 7. Parallel views on mediators and styles 8. Conclusion: the parallel understandings and experiences in case processing and mediation.