Avoiding Impasse in Mediation

  BY AVA ABRAMOWITZ

Parties have often reached impasse by the time they get to mediation. Why is it any different if impasse occurs during a session? Is it possible the mediator may have played a role in creating it?

Listen to mediator and lecturer Ava J. Abramowitz from the George Washington University Law School as she discusses what mediators can do to avoid impasse, even prevent it.