{"id":3,"date":"2010-03-01T15:31:14","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T15:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/?p=3"},"modified":"2021-04-19T16:01:08","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T20:01:08","slug":"waive-party-opening-statements-never","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/waive-party-opening-statements-never\/","title":{"rendered":"Waive party opening statements? Never!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a reason why to not allow parties to waive their opening statements: I did a mediation recently involving a partnership breakup. In pre-mediation, it appeared that the issues would concern a buy-out of the departing partner, as well as a non-compete. But in the mediation, when it was the plaintiff&#8217;s turn to give his opening, he said to his former partners across the table, &#8220;I need a job.&#8221; The partners looked at one another, then said,&#8221; We need you back.&#8221; The rest of the mediation focused on how to restore the former partner to the partnership. If I had heeded some attorneys&#8217; advice to &#8220;skip the opening statement&#8221; this might never have happened. I&#8217;ll never let parties waive their opening statements!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a reason why to not allow parties to waive their opening statements: I did a mediation recently involving a partnership breakup. In pre-mediation, it appeared that the issues would concern a buy-out of the departing partner, as well as a non-compete. But in the mediation, when it was the plaintiff&#8217;s turn to give his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learnings-from-mediation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":852,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions\/852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}