Launching the Massachusetts Uniform Mediation Act Blog at www.massumablog.com

In an effort to encourage public input and participation in discussions concerning the UMA and its impact on mediators, lawyers, and others, the MassUMA Working Group has turned to digital technology and the internet, launching the MassUMA Blog.

One of the Working Group’s subcommittees, which has been meeting to explore the definition of mediator and mediator training, has just posted its findings regarding the current Massachusetts mediation confidentiality statute and the UMA, and is asking for public comment on its recommendations regarding how the UMA, if adopted in Massachusetts, should define “mediator”.

How “mediator” is defined is a matter of great consequence to the question of privilege and confidentiality of mediation communications. Under current Massachusetts law, M.G.L. ch. 233, § 23C, a mediator is defined as “a person not a party to a dispute who enters into a written agreement with the parties to assist them in resolving their disputes and has completed at least thirty hours of training in mediation and who either has four years of professional experience as a mediator or is accountable to a dispute resolution organization which has been in existence for at least three years or one who has been appointed to mediate by a judicial or governmental body”. The UMA on the other hand defines a mediator as “an individual who conducts a mediation”.

more...

I'm very proud that some people think that I'm a danger for the intellectual health of students. When people start thinking of health in intellectual activities, I think there is something wrong. In their opinion I am a dangerous man, since I am a crypto-Marxist, an irrationalist, a nihilist. by free online casino

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. by online poker

A democracy is a state which recognises the subjecting of the minority to the majority. by texas holdem poker

History is philosophy derived from examples. by poker chips

I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true. by online casino

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned. by casino gambling

Consciousness is a being, the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being. by texas hold'em