{"id":878,"date":"2021-09-23T16:45:32","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T20:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/?p=878"},"modified":"2021-09-23T16:45:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T20:45:32","slug":"update-to-9-2-21-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/update-to-9-2-21-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Update to 9\/2\/21 Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An update to my post of 2 September 2021, &#8220;Mediator Standards of Conduct Could Have Helped Here&#8221;: the mediator&#8217;s law firm has decided to withdraw from representing the one party in that case, thus removing the appearance of a conflict of interest. This means an appellate court decision on mediator conflicts of interest will have to wait for another day.<\/p>\n<p>This case raises another interesting question: the guidance regarding a possible post-mediation conflict of interest applies to the mediator, but does it also apply to the mediator&#8217;s law firm? In this case, the subsequent professional relationship was between a mediation party and the mediator&#8217;s law firm, not with the mediator himself. It still smells like a conflict of interest to me, but it&#8217;s not so specified in the Mediator Standards of Conduct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An update to my post of 2 September 2021, &#8220;Mediator Standards of Conduct Could Have Helped Here&#8221;: the mediator&#8217;s law firm has decided to withdraw from representing the one party in that case, thus removing the appearance of a conflict of interest. This means an appellate court decision on mediator conflicts of interest will have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mediation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878","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=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}